placed them according to the natural order, Manasseh the elder at Jacob’s right hand, Ephraim the younger at his father’s left hand to be blessed ere he died. But Jacob guided his hands wittingly and placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head and his left on the head of Manasseh. Thus the cross put the second man first. So Christ is not the first born in the sense of being created first, for He was uncreated and is Himself the Creator but He is, as man, the rightful heir of all, therefore the first