account to show them that he acknowledges the wrong, and with the hope that the thousand pieces of silver may be ‘a covering for the eyes.’ That is, the present is intended to make them blind to the mistake which has occurred. But the word here employed for ‘covering’ is not a form of the word Kipper. This word had already gained a more metaphorical significance. Consequently its occurrence in Genesis 32:20 does not warrant us to say clearly that it there signifies a covering. It may rather signify
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