Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 31:15 - 31:15
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Gen_31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
Ver. 15. Are we not counted of him strangers?] Well might that father {a} say, Aåéíïò êáé ðáíôïëìïò ðçò öéëï÷ñçìáôéïò åñùò . "The love of money is the root of all evil," as the apostle hath it. {1Ti_6:10} This kyte-footed corruption, wheresoever it seizeth and domineereth, it blasteth and banisheth all nobleness of spirit, natural affection, humanity, reason, discretion, manliness, mutual entertainment, intercourse of kindness and love: so that, for any fair dealing, a man had as good converse with a cannibal, as with a truly covetous captive. Well might the apostle set "covetousness" and "want of natural affection" together, as signs of a reprobate sense. {Rom_1:29; Rom_1:31} Laban sells his own daughters here, and devours also their price. And the covetous Pharisees taught children to starve their parents, to offer to the altar; that is, to their paunches and purses. {Mat_15:4-6}
{a} Isidor., Pelus., lib. iii. Ep 24.