“And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?”
Isaac answered Esau: I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son? The inventory of what has been given to Jacob leaves nothing of equivalent covenant weight for Esau. The blessing was comprehensive; there is no second version of it to give. The application: the covenant inheritance is not infinitely divisible. What has been given to the covenant heir cannot be given again to someone else in the same form.
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