Abel - Presentation of Sacrifice (Heb 12:4) Isaac - Promise of the Seed (Rom 9:7) Jacob - Paradox of Servitude (Rom 9:12) Ephraim - Prominence of the Second (Gen 48:19) Pharez - Posterity to the Saviour (Matt 1:3)
“For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”