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Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
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The One Covenant Blessing
Commentators explain that Isaac's primary blessing was not just a generic good wish, but the singular, irrevocable transfer of the covenant promises made to Abraham. This included spiritual headship and temporal lordship. Esau's desperate plea, "Hast thou but one blessing?" reveals his failure to grasp that the main, covenantal blessing had already been given and could not be duplicated or shared.
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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
Hast thou but one blessing? Esau seems to take courage, but he neglects the care of his soul and turns, like a swine, to the pampering of …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Esau said to his father, have you but one blessing, myfather ?&c.] He seems to sp…
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…