Word: manasseh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CORNELIUS NICHOLAS BARKER Minister The Manasseh Cutler Church (Congregational) Hamilton, Mass...
...mother of Ephraim, the younger son. Jacob blesses his grandsons, thus adopting them in effect and admitting them to the tribes of Israel. But against all custom, he is inspired to bless Ephraim first. Joseph gently tries to guide the patriarch's hand to the head of Manasseh, explaining that he is the elder. Jacob, filled with prophetic spirit, replies (Genesis 48:19): "I know it. my son, I know it: he also shall become a people and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become...
...genius for making light and darkness speak, Rembrandt surrounds the entire scene with a deathly shadow, concentrates the light mainly in Jacob as that moment's vessel of God's will, and then makes it leap and pour goldenly past the dark head and hurt eyes of Manasseh upon fair-haired Ephraim, who shines like his grandfather...