“And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
And Jacob said to Pharaoh: the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers. The testimony of pilgrimage — repeated here — is the theological self-understanding of the covenant person: life is a pilgrimage, not a permanent settlement. Hebrews 11:13 describes the patriarchs as foreigners and strangers on earth. The application: the honest naming of one's own life as pilgrimage — few and difficult — is the naming that places one within the longer story of the covenant rather than expecting the covenant to produce ease.
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