PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis
Thomas Whitelaw [1840-1917] · 541,608 words · 594 reading sections
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EXPOSITION. diu. not make himself known to his brothers CHAPTER XLIV. at the repast was not due to unnatural cal- 'Vers. 1, 2.-And he (i. e. Joseph) com- lousness which caused his heart to remain manded the steward of his house,-literally, cold and steeled (Kalisch), or to a fear lest he him that wa.i over his house…
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eh. iii. 1) originally signifying to hiss or whis- let it be according to your words. So LXX., per, and hence to mutter incantations, to Vulgate, and commentators generally; but practise ophiomancy, and generally to divine. Kalisch reads it as an interrogation, "Is it The special form of divination here referred right …
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his rrotection (Rosenmiiller, Keil, Lange, Jacob of their sad communication Judah Murphy, 11.nd others). How nobly they docs not recite (eh. xlii. 36), but passes on stood the test Judah's pathetic supplication to the l?eriod of the commencement of the reveals. second J oumey. Aud our father said (i. e. Vers. 18-34…
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over-estimate. In behalf of one whom he passed upon his brethren, an<l in particular knew wo.s preferred to B higher place in his upon Judah, since the day when he had father's affection than himself, he was willing eloquently urged, and they had wickedly to renounce .his liberty rather than see his consented, to sell …
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Ver. 5.-Probation. Divination by cups was practised by the ancient Egyptians. But no reason to suppose that Joseph actually used this art. It would have been inconsistent with his habitual.faithfulness to God, and with the ascription to him alone of the power to reveal secrets (eh. xl. 7-xli. 16). He was now acting a…
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God eende trial grace is provided (1 Cor. it. 13), answering every need; help for the falling or fallen !lB well as strength for the steadfast, 111. How TO STAND IN THE DAY OB' TRIAL. In each of the messages to the Churches (Rev. ii., iii,) trial is implied-now of persecution, now of false doctrine, now of indolent sp…
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pathos of this pleading of Judah. 2. We learn from this position and plending of Judah as to_how we should approach God. Wo have sinned and can only throw our- selves on lns mercy. We see also how Christ pleads for us. His pleading ia real and earnest. He prayed on earth for his disciples. The present is o. dispensa…
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discernment of this in their countenances ally, and now) it was not you that sent me WBB the re11son why he BBked eo abruptly hither, but God-literally, f01' ehe Elohim a.fter Jacob. Doth my father yet live 1 It (sent me). Joseph's brethren sent him to be is not now" the old m11n of whom ye spake" a slave; God sent him…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-15.-Josep!i's ducovery of himself to !ti.s brethren. I. THE ANNOUNCEMENT, " I am Joseph, whom ye_ sold into Egy~t. 11 1. How _it was made. (1) Jn privacy. "There stood no man with Joseph, wlule he made hnnself known to his brethren." This w~s natural. :r'he emotions of the momel!t were too strong…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-15.-Dctrkness turned into light. Joseph'e re,elation of himself to hie brethren in the atmosphere of the purest brotherly affection and grateful acknowledgment of Divine goodness. Only small natures are ashamed of tears. At first the men who had a great sin upon their consciences w…
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EXPOSITION, Ver. 16.-And the fame thereof-literally, land meant either the richest and most fertile the voice, hence rumour (cf. Jer. iii. 9)-was portion of it (Lange, Kalisch), or the best heard in Pharaoh's house (having been and choicest of its productions (Geseniua, brought thither doubtless by some of the Keil). …
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HOmLETICS. Vers. 16-28.-Joseph' s inintation to Jacob. I. AuTIIORISED DY PIIARAOH. Though possessed of the liberty to issue such II commission as he hue\ just intrusted to his brethren, Joseph felt that it would be right and proper to have his sovereign's sanction. Accordingly, on mentioning the mutter to tho lung, th…
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Ill, THE TRUE FAITH 1B THAT WRICH GRATEFULLY ACCEPTS THE UIYITATION OJ' DIVINE GRACE, AOTINO UPON IT, DOTH BY THE DECISION OF THE WILL AND BY THE DEVO- TION ou THE LIFE. "It ia enough, I will go." IV. THE REWARD WHICH 18 PREPARED FOR THE TRUE OBEDIENCE IS MUCH GREATER THAN WE CAN ANTICIPATE. To see Joseph was the patr…
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"Expectation" (Gesenius); Zephon (Numb. Benjamin ; a plausible explanation of which :nvi. 16)-and Haggi,-ff Festive" (Gcse- is that Benjamin's sons died early, anrl were nius)-Shuni, - ff Quiet" (Gesenius)- and replaced in the list of heads of families by two Esbon,-ff Toiling" (Murphy) ; named Ozni of Bela's sons who …
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pilgrin1s to their appointed settlement (Da- castes that then prevailed. .According to o. thius, Rosenmiiller, Keil, Lange, Ainsworth, law promulgated by Amasis, a monaroh of Mm-phy, 'Speaker's Commentary'), rather the 26th dynasty, every Egyptian was obliged than that Joseph might meet him in Goshen to give a yearl…
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HOMILETICS. Vera. 1-34.-Tlie descent of Jacob and his family into Egypt. I. THEDEPARTtJ'RE FROM CANAAN (vers. 1-7). 1. The journey to Beersheba. Distant from Hebron somewhere over twenty miles, Beersheba lay directly in the way to Egypt. Yet doubtless the chief motive for halting at "the well of the oath" consisted in…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Oh. xlvi. 1-4; xlvL 28-30; xlviL 7-10. -Tlie three meetings. I. BETWEEN JACOB AND GoD. 1. A gracious meeting. In the visions of the night, at Beersheba, Jeho,ab, after a lapse of upwards of a quarter of a century, again makes known his presence to his servant. It \Vas a signal act of graci…
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the world 11ccording to the JP,WS. There may be something in the combination of numbers. Seventy is 7 X 10. Ten is the symbol of the complete deYelopment of hum11nity. Seven of perfection. Therefore seventy may symbolise the elect people of God ns the hope of humanity-Israel in Egypt. In the twelve patriarchs and seven…
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CH.APTER XLVII. modern times (1736) exceedingly productive and thickly populated. And if thou knowest Ver. 1.-Then Joseph came-literally, and any men of activity among them,-literally, Joseph went, up to the royal presence II-'! and if thoit knowest, and there be among them, he had proposed (eh. xlvi. 31)-and told …
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HOMILETICS. Vere. 1-10.-Jacob and his sons before Pliaraoh. I. JosEPn's BRETHRE~ BEFORE PHARAOH (vers. 1-6). 1. Their arrival announced (ver. 1). "My father and brethren are come out of the land of Canaan, and bahold they are in the land of Goshen." 2. Their persons presented (ver. 2). "He took some of his brethren, e…
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HOMILIES BY VA RIO US AUTHORS. Vem. 1-10. -The presentation to Pharaoh. I. TESTIMONY TO POWER OF CHARACTER. Joseph's influence. 'fhe five brethren selected perhaps with a view to their appear- ance, and in the number five, which was regarded as a significant number among the Egyptians. The monarch's reception of the s…
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Ver. 11.-And J'oseph placed his father to the least (Calvin), or completely, down and his brethren (i. e. gave them a settle- even to the food for their children(' Speaker's :nent, the import of which the next clause Commentary'). explains), and gav!I them a possession (i. e. Ver. 13.-And there was no bread in all …
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nnd in the le.nd of Ce.na&n, for the corn them into serfs aud bondmen to Pharaoh -vhich they bought: and .Joseph (wl10 in (LXX., Vulgate), but simply transferred them, this matter was simply Pharaoh's steward) caused them to passover-to cities-not from brought the money into Pharaoh's house cities to cities, as if c…
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much as that in the shape of rent, and with the military order; and of Strabo (nii. quite as much case I At all events the people 787), that the peasants wero not Iandownera, themselves did not consider that they were but occupiers of rateable land; as also by being subjected to any harsh or unjnst the monuments, whic…
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grain which he had previously collected; in the first instance, for money; in tho second instance, when the money failed, for horses and cattle; and in the third in- stance, when nothing remained between the people and starvation, for their lands and their persons .. (3) At the close of the famine Joseph returned to…
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HOMILETICS. Vera. 28 - 31. - Jacob's residence in Egypt. I. JAcon's PEACEFUL OLD AGE. "And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen yeara." After an eventful and chequered pilgrimage of 130 years, during which Jacob had made large experience of the ills of life, having encountered adversity in forms both more numero…
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to heavenly wisdom; to live in habitual contemplation of tho end, that they may not be afraid when doath comes, and to cultivate that holy alliance with the God of ealvation which will e~able them to say, "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were chssolved, we have a building of God an house not ma…
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Vera. 28-31.-Jacob's appreliension. I. WHAT IT WAS. 1. It was not anxiety about temporal support, for that had been generously made sure to him by his son Joseph. 2. It was not concern about thefuturefortunes of liisfarnil11, for these had been graciously taken under God's protection. 3. It was not uncertainty as to hi…
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father would mnke Rn indelible impression families of their brethren, ns here directed (cf, on their heart.s" (Lawson), rather thRn in Numb. xni. 28-37; I Citron, vii. 14-29). order to obtain from Jncob "a pledgo of Ver. 7.-Aud e.s fo1· me (literally, and, I, their unq1rnlified Rdmission as members of tl1e pronoun b…
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and wl1y ho nsketl them to bo set close by the words which h,w been adoptcrl by tho l1is bed. And he (tlrnir father) brought best scholars (CalYin, Dathe, Roser,miiller, them near unto him ; and he (their old Keil, l{aliscb, Murphy, Tayler Lewis, and grandfather) kieeed them, and embraced others), though the translatio…
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16 with xlix. 1S) and by Job (xix. 21) to ther shall be greater than he (cf. Numb. i. describe the Dh·ine Rescuer who had delivered 33 with i. 35 ; ii. 19 with ii. 21), and hia them f,\)m ill both temporal and spiritual, seed shall become a multitude of nations- and who was to complete his emancipating literally, sh…
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HOMILETICS. Vere. 1-22.-Jac.,b's dying utterances. I. AN or.o MAN'S SICK-BED. "It came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick." In this the venerable patriarch-I. Suffered an experience that is common to all. For nearly three half-centuries had this weather-beaten pilgrim been abl…
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time giving special thanks to_ Elohim for his suverabundant mercy in permitting him to see Joseph's sons, and Ins beloved Rachels offspring. (2) Guiding his hands wittingly, he ~ets them crosswise upon his grandsons' heads, tho rig·ht hand upon that of. Eplrnnm, the y~unger, and the left hand upon that of Manasseh, the…
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we know of the person named. The II name" of God is what he has revc11led concern• ing himself (cf. Exod. xxxiv. 5-7; Ps. xx. 1). The threefold benediction of ~nmb. vi. 24 ( cf. Isa, vi. 3; Rev. iv. 8) rmswers to the apostolic benediction of 2 Cor. xiii. 14. And Jacob's solemn blessing of his grandsons in a threefold n…
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born, my might, and the beginning of my ren (not in parcnta;c alone, but nlso in strength, the excellency of dignity, and their deeds; e. g. tl1eir mn.ssacre of the the excellency ofpower:-Jacob's patriarchal Shechemites (eh. xxxiv. 26), to which un- benediction takes the form of an elevated doubtedly the next words…
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oruel :-the secoml synonym" wrnth," liter- bow down before thee. Fulfill€,l in the ele- ally, outpowrings, indicates the fnlncss and vation of the house of Judah to the throne, intensity of the tide of fury which by Simeon which owned as its subjecLs not simply and Levi was let loose upon the unsuspecting Judah's mot…
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Judges :,;:,iii. 31 ; l Sam. i. 3, !l, 24 ; ii. 14 (John ix. 7) and Shilo:th (Isa. viii. 6), nud kc.), the sense ha,s been explained as meaning intcrl?ret it as qui mittendtts esl (Vnl,,nte, that the leadership of Juda.h over the other Pererms, A Lapide, Grotins) ; a third ~lnSB tribes of Israel should not cease unt…
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Version, or is derived from M)lj), an uncertain e.ry,' &:c.), though the word miahpetainn has J'oot, eignifying to cover (Geseniue, Kalisch). been also rendered ava µl<1ov rwv kArypwv B'is eyee shall be red with wine, and his (LXX. ), int,er urminos (Vulga.te, Rosenmiil- teeth white with milk. Otherwise rendered ler), …
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in f:Cncrnl appears not to have been entirely Asher the b 1-ead shall bo fat (Kalisch)· fat destitute of the treacherous and formidable shall be his bread (Illm-phy); Out of Asher characteristics here depicted (Judges xviii. (cometh) fat his bread (Keil). Tho import 2i). "It is certainly observable that the of the b…
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Rosonmiiller, Kalisch, Gerlach, Murphy, and brooks which spring from the great deep or others). But his bow abode in strength, the abyss of the earth, pour their fertilisin" and the arms of his hands were made strong waters over J oseph's land, so that cverythin~ by the hands of the mighty Gou of Jacob. that had womb a…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-33.-The patriarchal bleIJsing, or tlie last words of Jacob. I. THE soNs OF LEAR. 1. Tiu blessing on Reube:n. (1) A declaration of Reuben's natural pre- cedence, as the first-born in Jacob's family, the beginning of Jacob's strength, and therefore the legitimate heir of Ja.cob's house. (2) A procl…
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of Bilbnh, the mnid of Rachel; and concerning him the patriarch annonnces-(1) That though the child of n secondary wife, his descendants shoulrl attain to the position of an independent nnd self-governing tribe : " Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel"; (2) That if not ns a tribe, yet ns individua…
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Joshua, Samuel, David, Simeon, Stepli,en, Paul, Petei·, nud the apocal,yptic vision. s of John. Compare especially the song of .Alases, nnd the proplteC'IJ of Balaam. It seems possible that the beautiful exclamation, ver. 18, "I lwve waitedfo1· thy salva• tum, _O L?rd," was intended to form a kind o! middle point, sepa…
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measure, the prececloncy uccorded to him. Preccdency ia not to be sought for its own sake, It is then only unother form of vanity. When precedency is forc<'d on men, it is becuuse their worth und their usefulness to others is recognised by others, although not by themselves. How remarkable it is thut God often selected…
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Ver. 18.-God's salvation. I. WHAT IT IB. Deliverance from evil, succour against foes, victory over sin and death. II. WHENCE IT COMES. The primal fountain is Jehovah, the covenant God of. the believer. The salvation of the gospel is God's in its original conception and pro- clamation, in its subsequent procurement nnd…
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heing sc,cn decades, or ten weeks of seven required to enable Joseph to pass beyond the days, and tho second 12 >< 6 = 72, the boundaries of Egypt, especi11lly when 11ccom- duodecimal calculation being also used in panied by a large funeral procession), and l~gypt (vide Wilkinson in Rawlinson's 'He- bury my father, …
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of the ownor, or from the quantity or buck- ing theii garments, smiting on their breo.sts, thorn which grew in the neighbourhood. throwing dugt and mud on their heads, call- Which is beyond Jordan-literally, on the ing on the deceased by name, and chanting other side of the Jordan, i. e. west side, funeral dir~es to th…
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the country, it was needful that a public ceremonial should be observed, in honour of the dend. Accordingly, Joseph, as the first step required by the usages of the people amongst "-hom he lived, gave instructions to his court physicians to embalm his father. For details as to the process, which orcupied a period of fo…
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EXPOSITION. Ve:. 15. - And when (literally a,nd) 'Speaker's Commentary'), or the y,o,-er co 1oseph's brethren sa.w that their father interfere with the p1.1rpose3 of God 1 (Keil, wa.s dead, they (literally, and they) ea.id, Rosenmiiller); or, regarding them as an 1oseph will pero.dventnre hate us,-literally, assert…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 15-26.-Th.e last of tli,e house of Jacob. I. Josgprr AND HIS BRETHREN (vers. 15-18). 1. Tiu unworthy suspu:ion. _After Jacob's death, Joseph's brethren began to fear lest he should seek to revenge lumself on account of his early injuries. It was perhaps natural that such an apprehension should ari…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ver. 20.-lntended bane an unintentiooal boon. "Ye thought e~·il against me; bnt God meant it unto good." Joseph must have been deeply pained by the mistru,t of his brethren. 'fhcy implied that it was only out of consideration for his father that ho had heon kind to them. Yet Joseph had …
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and Pharisees held councils ag·ainst Jesus, the gentle pure 1 loving teacher of truth and he~ler of diseases, They sought ~ow they mig·ht kill him. Thoy excommuni~ l!ated hnn, they sent othe1:s to entrap !nm .. ~hey ~ucceeded at length in nailing him to the cross. They can-1ed out their evil mtentions ; but that cro…
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CHAPTER L - THE>IE PI.OB t'BEME •ADE The Tempter's Chief Weapon 63 The Visible Universe 6 The First J udgment Scene ... 68 Chaos an Emblem of the Unxenewed The Working of the Sin-stricken Con- Soul ... 7 science 69 The Value of Light 13 The Searching Question 69 Light an Emblem of the Gospel 14 The Doom of Satan and …
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THBl.rB PA.OIi: CHAPTER XXIX. A Bride for tho IIoir.-S. Eliezer and TRE.1111 Ha• Laban, or Proposds for the Bride ... 308 Jacob at the Woll of Haran: a Roman, Laban's Eye of Greed 309 tic Adventure 367 Le.ban, the Solicitons Host ... 310 Jacob among his Jifother's Kindred ... 368 A Bride for tho Heir.--4. Rebeka…
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