“And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.”
His father Isaac asked him: who are you? I am your son, Esau replied, your firstborn. The question Isaac asked Jacob in verse 18 he now asks Esau. The same question, the same answer — but this time the answer is true, and its truth proves the previous answer was false. The application: the truth that arrives after the lie has already done its work is the most painful form of revelation. Isaac now knows.
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