{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">But let us see if this people<a id=\"r643\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f643\"><sup>[643]</sup></a> is the heir, or the former, and\r\nif the covenant belongs to us or to them. Hear ye now what\r\nthe Scripture saith concerning the people. Isaac prayed for\r\nRebecca his wife, because she was barren; and she conceived.<a id=\"r644\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f644\"><sup>[644]</sup></a>\r\nFurthermore also, Rebecca went forth to inquire of the Lord;\r\nand the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in thy womb,\r\nand two peoples in thy belly; and the one people shall surpass\r\nthe other, and the elder shall serve the younger.”<a id=\"r645\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f645\"><sup>[645]</sup></a> You\r\nought to understand who was Isaac, who Rebecca, and concerning\r\nwhat persons He declared that this people should be\r\ngreater than that. And in another prophecy Jacob speaks\r\nmore clearly to his son Joseph, saying, “Behold, the Lord\r\nhath not deprived me of thy presence; bring thy sons to me,\r\nthat I may bless them.”<a id=\"r646\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f646\"><sup>[646]</sup></a> And he brought Manasseh and\r\nEphraim, desiring that Manasseh<a id=\"r647\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f647\"><sup>[647]</sup></a> should be blessed, because\r\nhe was the elder. With this view Joseph led him to the right\r\nhand of his father Jacob. But Jacob saw in spirit the type\r\nof the people to arise afterwards. And what says [the Scripture]?\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_125\">125</span>And Jacob changed the direction of his hands, and\r\nlaid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, the second\r\nand younger, and blessed him. And Joseph said to Jacob,\r\n“Transfer thy right hand to the head of Manasseh,<a id=\"r648\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f648\"><sup>[648]</sup></a> for he\r\nis my first-born son.”<a id=\"r649\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f649\"><sup>[649]</sup></a> And Jacob said, “I know it, my son,\r\nI know it; but the elder shall serve the younger: yet he also\r\nshall be blessed.”<a id=\"r650\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f650\"><sup>[650]</sup></a> Ye see on whom he laid<a id=\"r651\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f651\"><sup>[651]</sup></a> [his hands],\r\nthat this people should be first, and heir of the covenant. If\r\nthen, still further, the same thing was intimated through\r\nAbraham, we reach the perfection of our knowledge. What,\r\nthen, says He to Abraham? “Because thou hast believed,<a id=\"r652\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f652\"><sup>[652]</sup></a>\r\nit is imputed to thee for righteousness: behold, I have made\r\nthee the father of those nations who believe in the Lord while\r\nin [a state of] uncircumcision.”<a id=\"r653\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f653\"><sup>[653]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","Chap. xiii.—Christians, and not Jews, the heirs of the covenant."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-178"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8e4845dd2ec43b4e9387106d07d3cc5d3887dc09eab094249c5113ebb071a4e7","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":48,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xlviii. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f649","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f649","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f649\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r649\">649</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Genesis\">Gen.</abbr> <abbr title=\"forty-eight\">xlviii.</abbr> 18.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f649","text_sha256":"a3b251fd57500857cb03a83309db8a323e16bc25f62eaf613ce479cdb288c507","verified":false,"work_id":null}