The Wily Supplanter
J. C. Gray. Genesis 27:14-24 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.… Jacob, whose nature was at this time true to his name. 1. Receives a hint from his mother. Sad that her maternal love should have prompted such an act. Esau, as much her son as Jacob. She was equally bound by natural obligations to care far one as the other. No apologies seem to be a sufficient vindication of conduct that was in its very essence wrong. 2. Closes with his mother's recommendation. He ought to have resented it; to have expostulated, and over-ruled it. He rather suggests difficulties (ver. 11) to prompt her ingenuity. 3. Adopts the disguise she prepared, and followed her directions. Deception; and self-deception the worst of all. Perhaps thought it well, even by such means, to gain the blessing. 4. Repeated falsehoods. Again and again assured his father that he was Esau. 5. Obtained the blessing. Yet how could that bless which had been so obtained? God, in His mercy, ultimately brought good out of the evil Otherwise the father's blessing, so obtained, must have been a curse. (J. C. Gray.) Parallel Verses KJV: And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. WEB: He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.