The elder, &c. Verbatim as LXX. of Genesis 25:23 Of both Hebrew and Greek the literal rendering is The greater shall he bondsman to the less.

shall serve In the personal history of Esau and Jacob this was not literallyfulfilled; but it was so in spirit, in the subjection of Esau's interests and privileges to those of Jacob. In the history of their descendants it was repeatedly fulfilled to the letter; and prophecy (as in other cases, e.g. that of Abraham,) regarded the ancestor and his descendants as solidaire.

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