It can not be unpleasing to God. Under the shadow of the crisis his character was going to ruin. He grew cunning and hypocritical, and could do nothing that was not false in reality or appearance. When the Father passed him he would drop his head, and it national lampoons the stoned age taken for contrition, and he was commended for humility. It was now the last day of the year, and therefore the last of his duty at the door.