Question. Why (will some say) did he not keep himself in the land of Canaan? Answer. Jacob indeed dwelt there for a time, but yet as a sojourner, having no more liberties than he bought for himself—no, not so much as water for his camels or a place to bury the dead. And besides, he was driven out of this his own land by famine and was fain to flee into Egypt for food and sustenance and there to live as a poor pilgrim and stranger forth of his own country. And yet for all this extremity (as though