^M Labaii in pumtiil a type of Salon. Job 39, Lord Incariiato came. But by Laban can this world also bo —'_!— represented, which follows Jacob with fury, l)ccause it endea- vours to oppress by persecution all the Elect, who are members of our Redeemer. Jacob carried off the daughter of this person, that is, either of the world or of the devil, when Christ united to Himself the Church from the Gentile world. Whom he takes away also from the house of her Ps. A5^ father, because He says to her by the Prophet; Forget thine own people^ and tJiyfather's house. But what is designated Col. 3, by idols but avarice? Whence it is said by Paul; And ^' coretousness, which is idolatry. Laban therefore on coming Gen.3i,found not the idols upon .Jacob, because when the devil ^^' displayed the treasures of the world, he found not in our Redeemer the traces of earthly concupiscence. But those ib. 34. idols which Jacob had not, Rachel covered by sitting. For by Rachel,which also means ' a sheep,' is typified the Church. But to sit, is to seek after the humility of penitence, as it is Ps. 127 written; Arise, after ye have sat down. Rachel therefore 2' covered the idols by sitting, because Holy Church, by follow- ing Christ, covered, with penitence, the vices of earthly con- cupiscence. Of this covering of vices it is said by the Ps.32,1. Psalmist; Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and tvhose sins are covered. That Rachel then signified us, who press down idols by sitting, if we condemn the sins of covetousness by penitence. But this covetousness is not wont to befal those, who run like men in the way of the Ps. 31, Lord, to whom it is said; Do manfully, and let your heart ^^' be strengthened; but those especially who walking, as it were, with effeminate step, are relaxed by the blandishments of the world. Whence also in that place these are the Gen. 31 ^oi'^ls of this Same Rachel, According to the custom of 35' women it now is happening to me. Laban therefore finds not the idols upon Jacob, because the crafty exactor found nothing to blame in our Redeemer. Of which exactor it is said to our Redeemer by the Prophet, when He was deliver- jy (^ ^ ing the Gentile world from his dominion; For thou hast overcome the yoke q/' his burdeti, and the rod of his shoulder, and the sceptre of his oppressor, as in the day of Madian. For the Lord in rescuing the Gentile world, overcame the yoke of its burden, when He delivered it, by His coming. ll