But on Esau in general:on poor rough Esau, who sails Jacob's ships, digs Jacob's mines, founds Jacob's colonies, pours out his blood for him in those wars which Jacob himself has stirred up while his sleek brother sits at home in his counting-house, enjoying at once 'the means of grace' and the produce of Esau's labouron him Jacob's chaplains have less and less influence; for him they have less and less good news.

Or will you, like Esau of old, despise your birthright, and neglect to pray that God's Spirit may be renewed in you, and so lose more and more day by day the thought that God is your Father, and the love of holy and godlike things?