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A Model for Distress
Commentators note Rebekah's cry, "why am I thus?" came from deep distress, not just physical pain but from a sense that something was profoundly wrong. Her pregnancy, an answer to prayer, was causing a violent internal conflict. Like her, when we face confusing trials, the faithful response is to take our questions and anxieties directly to God in prayer.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 25:19–34
18th Century
Theologian
פדן padān — Paddan, “plowed field;” related: “cut, plow.”
עשׂי ‛êśâv, Esau, “hairy, or made.”
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 25:19–34
19th Century
Bishop
John Calvin
On Genesis 25:22
16th Century
Theologian
And the children struggled together. Here a new temptation suddenly arises: namely, that the infants struggle together in their mother’s w…
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John Gill
On Genesis 25:22
17th Century
Pastor
And the children struggled together within her
When she was quick with child: this was some time before her delivery…
Matthew Henry
On Genesis 25:19–26
17th Century
Minister
Isaac seems not to have been much tried, but to have spent his days in quietness. Jacob and Esau were prayed for; their parents, after being long c…