Verse 12
12. Said unto her (Genesis 25:23.) Disquieted by the commotion of her unborn twins, Rebecca makes inquiry of Jehovah as to the reason, who replies: “Two nations are in thy womb, and two manners of people; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger.” By these impressive words the two entire races are figured as being embodied in the little persons of the unborn infants: Edomites in Esau, Israelites in Jacob.
The elder… younger Reversing the law of primogeniture, by which the younger was the inferior.
Shall Will; the simple future tense. The sentence is a prediction, not a decree. (Note on Acts 28:26.) It was fulfilled, not in the persons of the twin brothers, but in their descendants, the Edomites being finally destroyed.
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