1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Genesis 48:22 | *I give thee a portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorrhite** with my sword and bow. Josue 16:1.; Josue 15:7.; Josue 24:8.; Deuteronomy 13:16. | Thee. In thy posterity; and particularly in Ephraim, to whose lot it shall fall, a portion. Hebrew shecem; which the Septuagint explain of the city, or field near it, which Jacob had formerly purchased; and which, being wrested from him after he had left that country, by the Amorrhites, he recovered by the sword. (Masius.) --- The particulars of this transaction are not given in Scripture. (Menochius) --- The children of Joseph buried their father in this field, Josue 24:32. There also was Jacob's well, John 4:5. We have already observed, that Jacob restored whatever his sons had taken unjustly from the unhappy Sichemites, Genesis 34:30. --- Sword and bow, is understood by St. Jerome and Onkelos in a spiritual sense, to denote his justice and earnest prayer, by which he merited the divine protection; (Calmet) or it may mean the money, which he had procured with hard labour. (St. Jerome, q. Heb.) |