“So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.”
So Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp. The separation of the gifts from their sender — gifts going ahead while Jacob stays behind — is the space between preparation for reconciliation and reconciliation itself. The application: the gifts that go ahead are the preparation; the sender who follows is the reconciliation. Both are necessary.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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