36. 1767. mThose who sit at the right hand of God the Messiah are also meant by Ishmael, and those who sit at His left are also meant by Esau; for "to sit at the right" is to be the closest to God the Messiah.n [Right hand; Esau; Ishmael; Left hand] 1771. "After this Esau took his wives, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and his every beast, and all his possession which he had acquired in the land of Canaan," [Gen. 36:] verse 6. Here everything that belonged to Esau is put into six classes, headed by Esau himself. For now the Messiah Himself is portrayed by Esau, who had been ruddy and hairy from his very birth, thus unsightly like a beast, as is quite evident from his description in Chapter 25, verse 25, as well as in Chapter 27, where Jacob was like a kid goat when he was clothed with its skins. Then also Ishmael was a wild man, like a beast, from his very birth, as is evident from the mouth of God the Messiah, Chapter 16, verse 12. But by order of succession, they became the first; while Jacob, on the contrary, was a perfect man, dwelling in tents, Chapter 25, verse 27, but by an upside down order, became the last. This is what is meant by those words of God the Messiah, that the last shall be the first, and the first shall be the last; see the passage in the Gospel [Matt. 19:30, 20:16, Mark 10:31, Luke 13:30].