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Gen_48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Ver. 20. And he set Ephraim before.] God many times sets the younger before the elder; makes the last to be first, and the first last; to show the freedom of his grace, and that "he seeth not as man seeth." {1Sa_16:7} The maids were first purified and perfmned, before Ahasuerus chose one. But Christ first loves, and then purifies his Church, {Eph_5:25-26} and loves, because he loves. {Deu_7:7-8} "And hath mercy on whom he will have mercy." {Rom_9:18}