Genesis 25:21 (WEB)
Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Fathers and councils · 2
“For thus unto Rebecca did God speak: “Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided from thy bowels; and people shall overcome people, and the greater shall serve the less.”” — editor's note: See Gen. xxv. 21–23, especially in the LXX.; and comp. Rom. ix. 10–13.
Read the whole comment“…Christian with the elder, and the Jew with the younger son, “according to the analogy of faith,” if the order of each people as intimated from Rebecca’s womb permitted the inversion: only that (in that case) the concluding paragraph would oppose them; for it will be fitting for the Christian to rejoice, and not to…” — editor's note: Comp. Rom. ix. 10–13; Gen. xxv. 21–24.
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