But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Ver. 4. But thou shalt go unto my country, &c.] Nahor's stock were neither pure in religion nor precise in life, Jos 24:2 Gen 31:30 yet far better in both than those cursed Canaanites. Some knowledge they retained of the true God, of whom they speak much in this chapter, and concerning whom they hear Eliezer here relating how he had answered his prayer, and prospered his journey. And for their manners, we find them hospitable, and their daughter, though fair, yet a pure virgin. Now,
“Lis est, cure forma, magna pudicitiae.”
Like unto these are the Greek Church at this day, which is far greater than the Roman: and though in some points unsound, and in others very superstitious, yet holdeth sufficient for salvation. Cyril, their good patriarch of Constantinople, set forth the confession of the faith of those Eastern churches anno 1629, agreeable in all things for most part to the reformed Protestant religion, but diametrically opposite to that they call the Roman Catholic. He is also busy about a general reformation among them, and hath done much good. a
a Brerewood's Enquiries, p. 139. - Bp. Ussher's Ser. at Wanstead. - D. Field, Of the Church. - Jac. Revius, De Vit. Pontif., p. 320.