Luther’s Works, Volume 5 (Biblia.com)

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In this volume Luther comments trenchantly and in a God-fearing manner on a somewhat complicated concatenation of events in the life of the patriarch Jacob. Esau has sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage. Issac aims to bestow a deathbed blessing on Esau. But in cahoots with Rebecca, Jacob cleverly succeeds in tricking Issac into giving him his brother's blessing. The blessing is...

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT 1. Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him: You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women. 2. Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father; and take as wife from there one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. THE first part of this chapter is not theological, for it does not relate examples or spiritual doctrine concerning faith and other spiritual acts of worship. Yet the things dealt with here require and include both faith

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