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Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
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The Blessing Was Irrevocable
Commentators explain that once Isaac spoke the blessing, he recognized it as divinely authored and therefore irrevocable. Despite the deceit, he understood he was a servant delivering God's will, not his own. As John Calvin notes, the blessing had real force because God was behind it, and Isaac could not alter what was divinely ordained.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first seventy-five years, he was contemporary with his father. For sixty-one more years, his…
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
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16th Century
Protestant
Behold, I have made him your Lord. Isaac now more openly confirms what I have said before: that since God was the author of the blessing, …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Isaac answered and said to Esau
Giving an account of the blessing he had bestowed upon his brother:
When Esau understood that Jacob had received the blessing, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry. The day is coming when those who now mak…
