“See how envy drove them to ingratitude, and not only them but also Laban himself. "Jacob saw Laban's attitude to him," the text goes on, remember, "and, lo, it was not as it had previously been." You see, his sons' words deranged his mind and made him forget what he had said some time before in conversation with Jacob…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 57.9
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1And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.
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— Genesis 31:1 —
2And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
3And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.