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Banks, L. A., The Great Saints of the Bible (1902), 44, 57.
Bell, C. D., The Name Above Every Name (1892), 137.
Cox, S., The Hebrew Twins (1894), 3.
Dods, M., Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph (1880), 27.
Farningham, M., Women and their Work, 16.
Gollancz, H., Sermons and Addresses (1909), 209.
Hammond, J., The Boys and Girls of the Bible (1898), 35.
Horton, R. F., Women of the Old Testament (1898), 33.
Maclaren, A., Expositions: Genesis (1904).
Matheson, G., The Representative Women of the Bible (1907), 79.
Meyer, F. B., Abraham, or the Obedience of Faith, 190.
Miller, T. E., Portraits of Women of the Bible (1910), 31.
Morrison, G. H., The Footsteps of the Flock (1904), 74.
Rawlinson, G., Isaac and Jacob (1890).
Simeon, J., Some Women of the Old Testament (1905), 69.
Spurgeon, C. H., Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, xiii. (1868), No. 837.
Stanley, A. P., Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church, i. (1889) 32.
Whyte, A., Bible Characters: Adam to Achan (1896), 174.
Williams, I., Female Characters of Holy Scripture (1890), 35.
Christian World Pulpit, lxxvii. (1910) 55 (W. S. Swanson).
Church of England Pulpit, lxi. (1906) 176.
Preachers' Monthly, vii. (1884) 310.
The character of Rebekah, as maid, wife, and mother, is drawn with perfect consistency and liveliness of delineation in the Book of Genesis. The story, with the exception of a few trifling details, is derived from the most picturesque and human of the sources of the book, the author whom we know as J. Appearing first as a pure, unselfish, loving girl, she becomes a woman of great strength of mind and depth of character. She is clever, active, energetic. She can make plans and carry them out, give orders and expect them to be obeyed, but her masterful spirit cannot brook opposition or contradiction. Esau's wives vex her beyond measure. When she loves, she loves with all her soul, and will spare no pains, consider no consequences, nor grudge any sacrifice for those she loves. “Upon me be thy curse, my son” (Gen_27:13), is her answer to Jacob when he fears that a curse will fall on his deception. Although that curse fell and her beloved son bad to flee and she saw his face no more, yet we forget the scheming, plotting woman in the loving wife and self-sacrificing mother.