Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Genesis 33:10

Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Genesis 33:10 - 33:10

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Genesis 33:10 - 33:10

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33:1 - 33:1
33:5 - 33:5
33:8 - 33:8
33:10 - 33:10
33:11 - 33:11
33:12 - 33:12
33:16 - 33:16
33:18 - 33:18

“For therefore,” sc., to be able to offer thee this present, “have I come to see thy face, as man seeth the face of God, and thou hast received me favourably.” The thought is this: In thy countenance I have been met with divine (heavenly) friendliness (cf. 1Sa 29:9; 2Sa 14:17). Jacob might say this without cringing, since he “must have discerned the work of God in the unexpected change in his brother's disposition towards him, and in his brother's friendliness a reflection of this divine.”