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 favor. 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 ii.
It rests on this ground—a family God, or God, Creator and providential Ruler.
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.