...manu fratris mei de manu Esau quia valde eum timeo ne forte veniens percutiat matrem cum filiis. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of...passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he...

...gratitude for his material blessings if he had gotten them dishonestly. Now the desperate request: "Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother,...come and smite me, and the mother with the children" (v. 1 1). It is not for himself alone that he fears. Now all the "holy seed" are in his care. He realized...