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.