GENESIS CHAPTER 31
— 2. No great wonder; but the natural fruit of all this evil and planning. What a path of peace is godly simplicity!
— 3. Still Jehovah is with Israel in grace; there is government with God’s people, but government in favour. We have Jehovah Himself taking up the matter again; He always pursues His plans. But it is a personal God, “the God of my Father”; the true God, but brought down to their relationship.
— 9. It is God acting as such, save the angelic message alleged by Jacob, verse 11.
It rests on this ground — a family God, or God, Creator and providential Ruler.
— [p. 95] 52. This was, after all, a formal separation of Jacob from the world; God had taken care of him till now, He always does of Israel, but even by angels — He only meets him after this — He told him to leave, that was all.