GENESIS CHAPTER 27
How we have sunk down here from Abraham’s history — Isaac’s mouth is full of venison; who would have thought of such a thing?
And what a different place too Rebekah has from Sarah. It is a sad picture; nobler human nature indifferent to God and the promise; and he who cared for it, a base and false nature, and led by the cunning of woman; yet all accomplishes the purpose of God, and we know Esau heartlessly despised God’s privileges, selling them for a mess of pottage — he was profane.
— 33. I do not doubt that the thought of God’s coming in to thwart his flesh had greatly to do with Isaac’s trembling, e-pho (”then”) — mi-e-pho (”WHO then?”)
Sad as Jacob’s course was, the overruling hand of God is most plain. We have a mixture of Jehovah and Elohim; Rebekah speaks of the blessing before Jehovah; Jacob says “Jehovah thy God” to Isaac; and Isaac speaks of a field which “Jehovah hath blessed”, but in the next verse asks blessing from Elohim. It was God as such giving blessing to man — it came from God. So in the next chapter it is “El Shaddai (God the Almighty) bless thee”, he going on a pilgrimage to a strange land. So Elohim gave to Abraham, it was God as a Sovereign.