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Gen_31:5 And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it [is] not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
Ver. 5. I see your father’s countenance, &c.] This is the world’s wages. All Jacob’s good service is now forgotten. Do an unthankful person nineteen kindnesses, unless you add the twentieth, all is lost {a} Perraro grati homines reperiuntur , saith Cicero. {b} Nemo beneficium in Calendarium scribit , saith Seneca. And the poet Ausonius not unfitly -
“Sunt homines humeris quos siquis gestat ad urbem
Ausoniam, domiti quae caput orbis erat:
Nec tamen ad portam placide deponat eosdem,
Gratia praeteriti nulla laboris erit”
{a} Páëáéá ìåí åõäåé ÷áñéò áìíçìïíåò äå âñïôïé . - Pindar.
{b} Orat. pro Planc.