So true servants depart Crod by them has visited the
Gentiles, to take out of them a people for His name.*'
This done, the elect journey on; while the world, un-
changed by what has been done for it, goes back to its old
ground and again settles there.^

A voice yet cries, " Hearken, daughter, and consider ;
forget thine own people and thy father^s house. Then in-
stead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou
mayest make princes in all this earth." **



§ V. — ^THE JOUBNET TO CANAAK, AND OHANGE OF NAHE.
(Chapter zxxiL and xxxiii. 1 — 16.)

Jacob's departure from Padan-Aram is a step, and but a
step, towards entering the promised land. After Laban is
left, it still remains in the face of Esau to go up over
Jordan. Leaving outward things is not possessing heavenly
things. Not a few have left the world, who are not come
to the good land ; and yet forsaking the outward world is

" Chap. nxTJ. 28. mere conatur. Htijas filiam Jacob

" Acts XV. 14. abfitulit, cum sibi ChristiuB Ecclesiam

" Gregory the Great thus gives ex gentilitate conjanxit, quam et de

the outward view : — ** Potest per domo patris abstnlit, qui ei per pro-

Laban mnndus hie exprimi, qui cum phetam dicit, * Obliviscere populum

furore Jacob persequitur, quia elec- tuam, et domum patris tui,' " &c. —

tos quosque, qui Bedemptoris nostri Moral in Job^ 1. xxx. c 25, § 72.
membra sunt, penequendo oppri- '* Psalm xly. 10, 16.
346 Jacclby or the Spirit of Service. [Pabi VI.
one stage^ and most necessary^ for all who at last attain to
heavenly things.
