So that I come again to my father's house in
peace
In safety from Esau, and all other enemies, as God promised him
he should: then the Lord shall be my God;
not as if he should not be his God if he did not do all this for
him; which would savour not only of a mercenary spirit, but of
great impiety; neither of which were to be found in Jacob: but
the meaning is, that he should not only continue to own him as
his God, and to worship him, but having fresh obligations upon
him, should be stirred up more eagerly and devoutly to serve him
in a very singular way and manner, and particularly by doing what
is expressed in ( Genesis
28:22 ) . Some think he has respect to the Messiah, owning
him to be the true God with the Father and the blessed Spirit,
who had appeared to Abraham, and was the fear of Isaac, and whom
Jacob now owned as his God: this receives some confirmation from
the Targum of Jonathan, which begins the paragraph thus,
``if the Word of the Lord will be my help then the Lord shall be my God.''