Genesis 31:43-48 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children… 1. The righteous and wicked in covenants of peace may agree in the same terms, but not in the same heart. 2. Good and bad have inclination to use terms consonant to their country and religion. 3. Imposition of names upon dead things may tend to the information of the living (ver. 47). 4. Visible tokens may lawfully bear the titles of things signified by them. 5. The worst souls may be ready in word to appeal to witness, but such as they conceive cannot hurt them. 6. Pillars and places may bear the name of memorable actions to teach posterity (ver. 48). 7. Titles and words enough the falsest hearts may use for their own ends. 8. Jehovah may be appealed unto by false hearts as to selfseeking and their own security. 9. Fair pretences and guilty fears may move wicked souls to lay bends from God upon the innocent for their own safety. 10. God doth oversee and watch all parties covenanted what they do when they are separated (ver. 49). (G. Hughes, B. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? |
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