Genesis 28:10-15 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.… I. ANALYSIS. 1. It is evident that God Himself was the sum and substance, the centre and glory, of that entire vision. The Almighty was disclosed in presence and purpose, in prediction and promise, as standing up over the ladder of grace for a fallen world. 2. See the effect of this discovery upon Jacob. (1) The first thing it did was to frighten him. (2) The next effect seems to have been some sort of sense of guilt. He vaguely feels the need of propitiation. II. LESSONS. The truest way to produce conviction of sin is to make a disclosure of Divine holiness. 2. The uselessness of mere religious emotion without establishment of principle. 3. God really offers a chance of salvation to every man who will enter upon the new life. (C. S. Robinson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. |
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