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Isaac was filled with astonishment and horror in consideration of Jacob’s fraud, and the sad disappointment and great misery of his beloved Esau, and his own rashness and folly in suffering his fond affection towards him to carry him headlong into an opposition to the Divine oracle, Gen_25:23, which now came to his remembrance, as appears by his ratification of Jacob’s blessing.
Who? where is he? A short speech, proceeding from a discomposed mind.
Yea, and he shall be blessed. This blessing, though otherwise intended by me, and pronounced upon a mistake of the person, shall and must rest upon the head of Jacob; and I neither can nor dare undertake to revoke and contradict God’s appointment, which now I more fully discern, and in which both thou and I and all men must fully acquiesce. And now Isaac fixeth the blessing upon Jacob by faith, as it is expressed, Heb_11:20, which before, through misguided fancy and affection, he intended for Esau.