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| Of the Sons of Joseph, Whom Jacob Blessed, Prophetically Changing His Hands.
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Chapter 42.—Of the Sons of
Joseph, Whom Jacob Blessed, Prophetically Changing His
Hands.
Now, as Isaac’s two sons, Esau
and Jacob, furnished a type of the two people, the Jews and the
Christians (although as pertains to carnal descent it was not the
Jews but the Idumeans who came of the seed of Esau, nor the
Christian nations but rather the Jews who came of Jacob’s; for
the type holds only as regards the saying, “The elder shall serve
the younger”977
), so the
same thing happened in Joseph’s two sons; for the elder was a
type of the Jews, and the younger of the Christians. For when
Jacob was blessing them, and laid his right hand on the younger,
who was at his left, and his left hand on the elder, who was at his
right, this seemed wrong to their father, and he admonished his
father by trying to correct his mistake and show him which was the
elder. But he would not change his hands, but said, “I know, my
son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be
exalted; but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his
seed shall become a multitude of nations.”978
And these two promises show the
same thing. For that one is to become “a people;” this one
“a multitude of nations.” And what can be more evident than
that these two promises comprehend the people of Israel, and the
whole world of Abraham’s seed, the one according to the flesh,
the other according to faith?E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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