The importance of Ephraim appears in 3:27; 7:24; 8:1, 8:2; 10:9; 12:1-6.
Ayat ti kangrunaan a pakailasinan dagiti pasurot ni Kristo, ket “ti ayat . . . saanna a sapulen dagiti bukodna a pagimbagan.”—1 Corinto 13:4, 5; Juan 13:34, 35.