GENESIS, TYPICALLY CONSIDERED, CHAPTERS 33 - 34
GENESIS, TYPICALLY CONSIDERED, CHAPTERS 33 - 34
Esau now leaves the promise however to him, and goes to the place God hates — to his own portion.
Israel now, not at Bethel, and yet unpurged, see Genesis 35:2,
[p. 151] buys in the land where he was a stranger; hence righteousness itself becomes confusion and violence.
Yet God is still with him, and he is driven out from this ungodly settlement, for it was not his rest as yet.