But Esau cared for none of these things. The day on which Jacob took away the blessing marks the crisis in Esau’s life. He still despised the covenant and sought only worldly lordship and plenty. For this profane scorn of the spiritual promise made to Abraham and Isaac, Esau not only lost the blessing which he sought, but was himself rejected. The Apostle reminds his readers that they know it to have been so from Esau’s subsequent history. They would not fail to see in him an example of the terrible doom described by the Apostle himself in a previous chapter. Esau was like the earth that brings forth thorns and thistles and is “rejected.”[359] The grace of repentance was denied him.[360] FOOTNOTES: [329] ὑπομονή (x. 36). [330] Chap. xii. 14. [331] Chap. xiii. 13. [332] Chap. iv. 3. [333] Chap. ix. 15. [334] Chap. x. 19. [335] ὄγκον (xii. 1). [336] εὐπερίστατον. [337] ἀγῶνα. [338] Chap. xii. 2. [339] ἀρχηγόν (ii. 10). [340] τετελείωκεν (x. 14). [341] πρόδρομος (vi. 20). [342] τετελειωμένον (vii. 28). [343] Reading εἰς ἑαυτούς (xii. 3). [344] ἀναλογίσασθε (xii. 3). [345] Chap. ii. 13. [346] Chap. iii. 2. [347] εἰς παιδείαν ὑπομένετε (xii. 7, where the verb is indicative, not imperative). [348] Num. xvi. 22. [349] Prov. xvi. 7. [350] τὸ χωλόν (xii. 13). [351] Chap. ix. 28. [352] ἐπισπκοποῦντες (xii. 15). [353] ὑστερῶν ἀπό. [354] Deut. xxix. 18. [355] Chap. xiii. 4. Cf. Rom. i. 18 sqq. [356] Gen. xxv. 32. [357] Gen. xxii. 18. [358] Gen. xxvii. 36. [359] ἀδόκιμος (vi. 8). [360] Chap. vi. 6. CHAPTER XV. _MOUNT ZION._