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rose up and went his way, without any serious reflections upon the bad bargain he had made, or any show of regret. Thus Esau despised his birthright; he used no means at all to get the bargain revoked, made no appeal to his father about it, nor proposed to his brother to compound the matter; but the bargain which his necessity had made (supposing it were so) his profaneness confirmed ex post facto--after the deed; and by his subsequent neglect and contempt he did, as it were, acknowledge a fine, and by justifying himself in what he had done he put the bargain past recall. Note, People are ruined, not so much by doing what is amiss, as by doing it and not repenting of it, doing it and standing to it.
Genesis -26
Isaac at Gerar
1 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that
was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
Here, I. God tried Isaac by his providence.
Isaac had been trained up in a believing
dependence upon the divine grant of the land
of Canaan to him and his heirs; yet now there
is a famine in the land, Ge 26:1. What shall he
think of the promise when the promised land
will not find him bread? Is such a grant worth
accepting, upon such terms, and after so long a
time? Yes, Isaac will still cleave to the
covenant; and the less valuable Canaan in itself
seems to be the better he is taught to value it,