Bible Dictionary: The First Born: Privileges of Precedence in the Family

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Genesis 48:13,14
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him.
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Pædobaptism. Its Accordance with the Institution of Christ, and ...
... of his favour, to extend their privileges to the ... they insist, then baptism must take
precedence of spiritual ... reply, first, that all the first-born, on opening ...
/.../chapter 16 paedobaptism its accordance.htm

Covenanting Provided for in the Everlasting Covenant.
... in the capacity of the First-born among many ... First, atonement ([Hebrew: kaper]"[Greek:
chatallage].) "The ... out the covenant relation and privileges, and duties ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter vi covenanting provided for.htm

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... and military, the priest at first taking precedence of the ... are said to have been
the first to employ ... includes it in a great linguistic family, which comprises ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

Introduction. Chapter i. --Life of S. Cyril.
... years old, and so must have been born not later ... The first few years of Cyril's
episcopate fell within that ... The rights and privileges of his See had been clearly ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/introduction chapter i life of s.htm

Womanhood of the Byzantine Decadence
... West as a princess of the Palaeologi, born in the ... First, each mother took her child,
embraced it, and ... by Turkish authority, the rights and privileges of that ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/xv womanhood of the byzantine.htm

Second Sunday after Epiphany
... It was born a member, before the exercise of ... The thought is, Exercise your privileges,
confining yourself to no ... Therefore, if you first become a Peter, a Paul ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol ii/second sunday after epiphany.htm

Period I: the Imperial State Church of the Undivided Empire, or ...
... schismatics be not only without the privileges but bound by ... of Life, only begotten
Son, the first-born of all ... tranquil reign and on behalf of your whole family. ...
/.../ayer/a source book for ancient church history/period i the imperial state.htm

Job's Regret and Our Own
... Now, it is a high privilege, beyond all privileges, to enter into familiar ... be that
of his birthplace: it was at Calvary we were born; it is ... Do the first works. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/jobs regret and our own.htm

The Eighteenth Theban Dynasty --(Continued)
... up a merely temporary abode there were more limited in their privileges. ... It was at
first thought that ... she was the daughter of Amenothes II., and born of the ...
/.../chapter ithe eighteenth theban dynastycontinued.htm

On the Soul and the Resurrection.
... For it is related of this patriarch first, of all up to that time born, that he
exchanged the enjoyment of the present for the hope of the future; he was ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/on the soul and the 2.htm