52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
[AD 407] John Chrysostom on Genesis 41:52
Notice that this child’s name too is suggestive of gratitude. “Not only did he grant me forgetfulness of my distress,” he is saying, “but he also made me prosper in the land where I suffered such awful humiliation as to be reduced to the limit and run a risk to life itself.”