Anf-01 vi.ii.xiii Pg 3
Gen. xxv. 21.
Furthermore also, Rebecca went forth to inquire of the Lord; and the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples in thy belly; and the one people shall surpass the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.”1632 1632
Anf-03 iv.ix.i Pg 15
See Gen. xxv. 21–23, especially in the LXX.; and comp. Rom. ix. 10–13.
Accordingly, since the people or nation of the Jews is anterior in time, and “greater” through the grace of primary favour in the Law, whereas ours is understood to be “less” in the age of times, as having in the last era of the world1134 1134 Sæculi.
attained the knowledge of divine mercy: beyond doubt, through the edict of the divine utterance, the prior and “greater” people—that is, the Jewish—must necessarily serve the “less;” and the “less” people—that is, the Christian—overcome the “greater.” For, withal, according to the memorial records of the divine Scriptures, the people of the Jews—that is, the more ancient—quite forsook God, and did degrading service to idols, and, abandoning the Divinity, was surrendered to images; while “the people” said to Aaron, “Make us gods to go before us.”1135 1135
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 25
VERSE (21) - 1Sa 1:11,27 Ps 50:15; 65:2; 91:15 Isa 45:11; 58:9; 65:24 Lu 1:13
