And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it [is] not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
Ver. 5. I see your father's countenance, &c.] This is the world's wages. All Jacob's good service is now forgotten. Do an unthankful person nineteen kindnesses, unless you add the twentieth, all is lost a Perraro grati homines reperiuntur, saith Cicero. b Nemo beneficium in Calendarium scribit, saith Seneca. And the poet Ausonius not unfitly -
“Sunt homines humeris quos siquis gestat ad urbem
Ausoniam, domiti quae caput orbis erat:
Nec tamen ad portam placide deponat eosdem,
Gratia praeteriti nulla laboris erit”
a Pαλαια μεν ευδει χαρις αμνημονες δε βροτοι. - Pindar .
b Orat. pro Planc .