John Calvin Commentary Genesis 33:10

"And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favor in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me." — Genesis 33:10 (ASV)

Receive my present at my hand. This noun may be taken passively as well as actively. If understood actively, the sense will be, “Accept the present by which I desire to testify my goodwill towards you.” If understood passively, it may be referred to God, as if Jacob had said, “Those things which the Lord has bestowed upon me by his grace, I liberally impart to you, that you may be, in some measure, a partaker with me of that divine blessing which I have received.”

But not to insist upon a word, Jacob immediately afterwards clearly avows that whatever he possesses is not the fruit of his labor or industry, but has been received by him through the grace of God. By this reasoning, he attempts to induce his brother to accept the gift, as if he had said, “The Lord has poured upon me an abundance, of which some part, without any loss to me, may overflow to you.” And though Jacob thus speaks under the impulse of present circumstances, he yet makes a sincere confession by which he celebrates the grace of God.

Nearly the same words are on the tongues of all; but there are few who truly ascribe to God what they possess: the greater part sacrifice to their own industry. Scarcely one in a hundred is convinced that whatever is good flows from the gratuitous favor of God; and yet by nature this sense is engraved upon our minds, but we obliterate it by our ingratitude.

It has appeared already how laborious the life of Jacob was; nevertheless, though he had suffered the greatest annoyances, he celebrates only the mercy of God.