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Gen_48:5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
Ver. 5. As Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.] God hath in like sort adopted us for his dear children; saying, "I will be a Father unto them, and they shall be my sons and my daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." {2Co_6:18} This St John calls a royalty or prerogative, { åîïõóéá , Joh_1:12} such as he elsewhere stands amazed at. {1Jn_3:1} And well he may; for all God’s children are "firstborn," and so "higher than all the kings of the earth." {Psa_89:27} They "in the fulness of their sufficiency are in straits." {Job_20:22} Whereas the saints, in the fulness of their straits, are in an all-sufficiency.