Geneva Bible Notes (1560): Genesis 33

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¹ ^a That if the one part were assailed, the other might escape.

³ ^b By this gesture he partly did reuerence to his brother, & partely prayed to God to mitigate Esaus wrath.

⁴ ^! Esau and Jaakob mete and are agreed.

⁶ ^c Jaakob and his familie are the image of the Church vnder the yoke of tyrants, which for feare are broght to subjection.

¹⁰ ^d In that that his brother imbraced him so louingly, contrary to his expectation, he accepted it as a plaine signe of Gods presence.

¹¹ ^/ Or, gift.

¹¹ ^e By earnest intreatie.

¹¹ ^! Esau receiueth his gifts.

¹⁴ ^f He promised that which (as semeth) his minde was not to performe.

¹⁷ ^/ Or, tentes.

¹⁸ ^/ Or, Mesopotamia.

¹⁹ ^/ Or, lambes, or, money so marked.

¹⁹ ^! Jaakob byeth a possession.

²⁰ ^! And buyldeth an altar.

²⁰ ^g He calleth the signe the thing, which it signifieth, in token that God had mightely deliuered him.