ISAAC BLESSES JACOB

Esau's marriage with the daughters of the Canaanites was an
abomination not only in the eyes of his mother, but also in the
eyes of his father. He suffered even more than Rebekah through
the idolatrous practices of his daughters in-law. It is the
nature of man to oppose less resistance than woman to
disagreeable circumstances. A bone is not harmed by a collision
that would shiver an earthen pot in pieces. Man, who is created
out of the dust of the ground, has not the endurance of woman
formed out of bone. Isaac was made prematurely old by the conduct
of his daughters-in-law, and he lost the sight of his eyes.
Rebekah had been accustomed in the home of her childhood to the
incense burnt before idols, and she could therefore bear it under
her own roof-tree. Unlike her, Isaac had never had any such