bread alone, etc.” This is stated about faith and the promises. It must be repeated and carefully inculcated both here and in many other places, for the flesh always resists. Here an additional question arises. Why did the very saintly parents, Isaac and Rebecca, send their son to idolaters? For we shall hear below that Laban had gods of silver, etc. Therefore they hurl their son into evident danger and by so doing seem to be tempting God. For when I approach certain and manifest danger, then it