Origen

“ Now if we assert that in all these cases God interposed in a very marked degree, [4] what absurdity do we commit, seeing we are persuaded that He never withdraws His providence [5] from those who devote themselves to Him in an honourable and vigorous [6] life? He ridicules, moreover, the acquisition of property made by Jacob while living with Laban, not understanding to what these words refer: “And those which had no spots were Laban’s, and those which were spotted were Jacob’s;” ”