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we may even forget them when they are past.
But could he be so unnatural as to forget all his
father's house? He means the unkindness he
received from his brethren, or perhaps the
wealth and honour he expected from his father,
with the birthright. The robes he now wore
made him forget the coat of divers colours
which he wore in his father's house.
2. He was made fruitful in the land of his
affliction. It had been the land of his affliction,
and in some sense it was still so, for it was not
Canaan, the land of promise. His distance from
his father was still his affliction. Note, Light is
sometimes sown for the righteous in a barren
and unlikely soil; and yet if God sow it, and
water it, it will come up again. The afflictions
of the saints promote their fruitfulness.
Ephraim signifies fruitfulness, and Manasseh
forgetfulness, for these two often go together;
when Jeshurun waxed fat, he forgot God his
Maker.
52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim [fruitful]: For God
hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of
Egypt, were ended.
54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph
had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.