Post by Lee on Jan 20, 2014 0:40:05 GMT
LEAH, though “tender eyed,” seems a far better character than Rachel. Leah was patient and faithful, striving to win her husband’s love in the difficult situation in which her father’s cunning had placed her. The Lord took pity on her. RACHEL—fair sample of a beauteous face and form, and very well beloved, yet upbraided her husband, envied her sister, and stole her father’s teraphim, or household gods, unknown to Jacob, and thus brought about her own death (Genesis 31:32; 35:18). It is from Judah, the son of Leah the hated, that our Saviour has come.
1899 Christadelphian: p 302
1899 Christadelphian: p 302