And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which [were] with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
Ver. 15. And Rebekah took goodly raiment.] The priestly garments, some think, proper to Esau had he kept his birthright; but kept, not by Esau or his wives, but by the mother of the family. The Hebrew calleth them Vestes desiderabiles, garments of desires; goodly, sweet, precious; yet far inferior to that rich and royal robe of Christ's righteousness, that garment of our Older Brother, wherewith arrayed we obtain the blessing. We read of Solomen's bravery; of Herod's cloth of silver; of Alcisthenes the Sybarite's cloak, sold to the Carthaginians by Dionysius for one hundred and twenty talents; of Demetrius's robe of estate, which, for the exceeding costliness of it, no prince that came after him would ever put on. a But all these were but rags to the robe of righteousness, that fine white linen, and shining. Rev 19:14
a Propter invidiosam impendii magnificentiam. - Athenaeus.