1 “So if the teaching of the prophets and of Him Himself moves you, it is better for you to follow God than your foolish and blind teachers, who even now allow each of you to have four or five wives; and if someone sees a beautiful woman and desires her, they cite the deeds of Jacob [called] Israel and of the other patriarchs, and say that those who do the same do no wrong. In this too they are wretched and foolish. 2 For, as I said before, certain plans of great mysteries were carried out in each act of this kind. I will tell you what plan and prophecy were carried out in the marriages of Jacob, so that from these too you may see that your teachers have never looked at the more divine purpose for which each act was done, but only at base and corrupting passions. So pay attention to what I say. 3 The marriages of Jacob were types of the work Christ was going to accomplish. For it was not lawful for Jacob to marry two sisters at once. And he serves Laban for [one of] the daughters, and, deceived about the younger, he served another seven years. Now Leah is your people and synagogue, and Rachel is our Church. And for these, and for the servants in both, Christ still serves even now.⁠a 4 For while Noah gave the seed of the third son to the other two as servants, now in turn Christ has come to restore both the free sons and the servants among them, counting all who keep His commandments worthy of the same honor, just as the sons born to Jacob from the free women and from the slave women were all sons and equal in honor. And what each would be, according to rank and foreknowledge, was foretold. 5 Jacob served Laban for speckled and many-spotted sheep; and Christ served, even to the slavery of the cross, for people of every race, varied and of many kinds, acquiring them by the blood and mystery of the cross. Leah’s eyes were weak, and so are the eyes of your souls, very weak. Rachel stole Laban’s gods and has hidden them to this day; and our ancestral, material gods are lost to us. 6 Jacob was hated by his brother all his life; and now we, and our Lord Himself, are hated by you and by all other people, though all are brothers by nature. Jacob was named Israel; and it has been shown that Israel is also the Christ, who is and is called Jesus.