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Gen_26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Ver. 17. And Isaac departed thence.] Was compelled to do so; though, not long before, the king of the country had charged all his people, on pain of death, not to disquiet him. Eíèá ôï çäõ ðëçóéïí êáé ôï ëõðçñïí . {a} So near neighbours are prosperity and adversity. Friends are very changeable creatures, saith Plato {b} Friends! there is no friend, saith {c} Socrates, no fast friend. Faithful friends, quoth the Duke of Buckingham to Bishop Morton in Richard III’s time, are in this age, all, for the most part, gone in pilgrimage; and their return is uncertain. {d} Sejanus’s friends showed themselves, as did likewise Haman’s, most passionate against him; saying, that if Caesar had clemency, he ought to reserve it for men, not use it toward monsters. Carnal friends were never true to any that trusted to them: whereas, trust in God, at length, will triumph, as we see in this patriarch.
{a} Antipho.
{b} Féëïò åõìåôáâëçôïí æùïí . - Plato.
{c} öéëïé, ïõäåéò Féëïò .
{d} Trussers Contin. of Dan. Chronicle.