GENESIS CHAPTERS 47 AND 48
[p. 102] GENESIS CHAPTERS 47 AND 48
— 3. We have reference to God Almighty appearing in Canaan, but all through here it is God, the One Sovereign, not man. In the great body of Joseph’s history, we see His hand, not His name, only in millennial hope, after Dan, Jehovah comes in.
— 4. All Israel is to be K’hal-ammim, an assembly of nations.
— 19. Ephraim is to be m’lo-haggoyim, fulness of nations; the last a large word, but not, I apprehend, a number of different nations, and it hardly seems to be a “multitude of nations”. Is not that the meaning of it? Is not this “fulfilling” or “fulness of the nations” something else? See Septuagint verse 4 sunagogas ethnon and verse 19 plethos ethnon and compare with Romans 11:12 ploutos ethnon.
At any rate not “a multitude of nations”; see Isaiah 31:4, “all the shepherds together”, I suppose. The multitude of nations shall be to Ephraim, not to Manasseh. I am disposed to believe it is the mass of Israel’s tribes, but the whole body of the peoples of Israel was counted to Ephraim.
Note it is haggoyim (the nations).
NOTE. — It is not the Jews but Israel all through.