Who is this One upon whom they look? "PRINCE of the KINGS of the earth." Sar of

Sars, the true and antitypical Israel, Prince of God.  Saviour and saved are both

foreshadowed.  He the great King-Priest after the Order of Melchisedek, they the

kingdom of priests, a royal priesthood. Israel like Jacob could not attain this by creature

strength, it was when the hollow of his thigh was touched that he asked a blessing and

received his princely name.

We have passed Jacob's history in review up to the moment when he "saw God face

to face, and his life was preserved", and he was changed from supplanter to prince. Such

is his transit, from catching his brother's heel in creature strength to losing the power of

the flesh for spiritual force, from scheming, bartering, and lying to obtain the blessings

that vanished into thin air to vowing with awe-struck heart, and praying with earnest

self-abnegation to the God of Bethel, the God of all grace.

Jacob well set forth in type Israel's history. First the reliance upon self, then the exile,

the servitude, the return and the new name--a Prince with God: and over all, from before

birth and throughout that eventful pilgrimage, the God of Abraham and of Isaac, in very

truth the God of Jacob. We now retrace our steps to the time of Jacob's birth to note

what is said concerning Esau, for he too is typical.

The epistle to the Galatians uses the two sons of Abraham as a figure, Ishmael

representing those in bondage, Isaac those who are free. Romans draws attention to Esau

and Jacob, teaching that they are not all Israel that are of Israel, and that the true Israel is

the child of promise. Not only did Abraham have two sons, the one a type of the flesh

and the law, the other a type of promise and covenant mercy, but Isaac also had two sons,

Esau and Jacob, who in their turn reflect in type the seed of truth and of evil.

Esau when he had grown is described as "a cunning hunter". The word for "hunter"

occurs twelve times in Genesis and is used of two persons only, Nimrod the mighty

hunter and Esau the cunning hunter. Esau is further described as "a man of the field".

Jacob in the same verse is called "a plain man". Why this rendering should have been

chosen we do not quite see. The very next occurrence of the adjective is found in

Job 1: 1, "this man was PERFECT and upright". In Song of Solomon 5: 2 and 6: 9 it

is rendered "undefiled". The substantive is rendered in Gen. 20: 5 "integrity" (margin,

"simplicity", "sincerity"), and these three words together with uprightness are the words

that are used to translate it throughout some twenty occurrences.

In the emphatic form tahmeem we find the word used of Noah, "Noah was a just man

and perfect" (Gen. 6: 9). It is used of Abraham in the words, "Walk before me and be