* sent away Jacob.
   Whoever observes Jacob's life, after he had surreptitiously
   obtained his father's blessing, will perceive that he enjoyed
   very little worldly felicity.  His brother purposed to murder
   him, to avoid which he was forced to flee from his father's
   house; his uncle Laban deceived him, as he had deceived his
   father, and treated him with great rigour; after a servitude
   of 21; years, he was obliged to leave him in a clandestine
   manner, not without danger of being brought back, or murdered
   by his enraged brother; no sooner were these fears over, than
   he experienced the baseness of his son Reuben, in defiling his
   bed; he had next to bewail the treachery and cruelty of Simeon
   and Levi toward the Shechemites; then he had to feel the loss
   of his beloved wife; he was next imposed upon by his own sons,
   and had to lament the supposed untimely end of Joseph; and to
   complete all, he was forced by famine to go into Egypt, and
   there died, in a strange land.  So just, wonderful, and
   instructive are all the ways of Providence!

 * Padan-aram.
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