85. Whence it was deservedly said to him by
his father: “My son Joseph is enlarged, my son is enlarged,
my younger son, my beloved. My God hath helped thee and blessed
thee with the blessing of heaven above and the blessing of the earth,
the earth that hath all things, on account of the blessings of thy
father and thy mother. It hath prevailed over the blessings of
the everlasting hills and the desires of the eternal
hills.” Gen. xlix. 22, 25, 26. And in
Deuteronomy: “Thou Who wast seen in the bush, that Thou
mayest come upon the head of Joseph, upon his pate. Honoured
among his brethren, his glory is as the firstling of his bullocks; his
horns are like the horns of unicorns. With his horn he shall push
the nations even to the ends of the earth. They are the ten
thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.” Deut. xxxiii. 16, 17.