x i, e, He effe&nally procured, as this word 1s uſed, 2 Kings 8. 1. Iſo. 47. 1, 5.and 56. 7. Reme 4 17+ y 7, e. Bread which is the ſtaff or ſupport of our Animal lives, | See Lev. 26+ 26. Pſal; 104: | I5. Exck; 4: 16,
"Gen 45- 17 * He ſent & a man before them,F even Joſeph who
ron was ſold for a ſervant. if '37* + & By the diretion of his ſecret providence. IGen. 29. 28 {| Whoſe feer they huit with fetters : | he was
201 laid iniron 4. +Heb: bis #4 Heb: his ſoul came into iron, Which ſeems to be added empha- ſul came tically to aggravat his impriſonment, and ro ſhew how grievous in iron, It was to his very ſoul, which muſt needs 1ympathize with his bo- dy, and moreover was greatly vexed to conſider both the great in- jury which was done to him, and yer the foul and publick ſcandal which lay upon him. :i9 Until the time b that his word c came : the word of the LORD tried him 'd.
b Till which time, his eminent Prudence, and Innocency, and and Piety gave himno relief. c Either, 1 Joſephs word or his Pro- phecy concerning the chicf Butler and Baker ; which 1s ſaid to come when it was fulfilled, as that word is uſed, Judg; 13: 12, 17. Exzek: 24: 24, and elſewhere, But the event confutes this ; for Joſeph was not delivered at that time, but two years after ity Gen; 41: 1. Or Tather, 2. The word of the Lord, as it follows; the pronoun Relative being here put before the Subſtantive to which it belongs, as it is alſo, Exod; 2; 6. Job 33: 20: Prove 5: 22: and 14: 13. He ſeems to ſpeak of that word or Revelation which came firſt to Pharaoh in a Dream, Gen: 41, 2, &«, and then to Joſeph concerning the inter- | Pretation of it, v: 15, 16. For the word of the Lord is faid to | come, not only when it comes to paſs, but alſo and moſt common- Iy when'it is firſt revealed, as Jer: 7: 2. and 11; 1. and 18: v and God is ſaid to come when he doth reveal ir, as Gen: 20: 3. and 31: | 24; d Either, 1. Tryed his ſincerity and conſtancy, Bur that was ' not done by Gods Word, but by his Red Or rather, 2. Diſ- covered him, to wit. unto Pharash and his Courtiers, how innos- ' cent, and holy, and knowing a perſon he was 3 or purged him from thoſe calumnies which are caſt upon him, and ſo prepared the way for his releaſe, which here follows wv: 20: This Verſe may well be rendered thus, Until the time that his word eame, even the word of the Lord, which tr:«d him 3 ſuch Ellipſes being moſt uſual in the
"een: g1, Hebrew Text, | , 20 * The king ſent and looſed him : eves the ruler of 'Gen; 41: the people, and let him go free. | Hick: we ' 24 || He made him Lord of his houſe,and ruler of all
kim, * his | ſubſtance g. : 4 Heb: of all kis poſſeſſion, 5. e- of his whole Kingdom. |
22 To bind his princes e at his pleature, and teach | his ſenatorsf wiſdom.
« By his Commands, and if they were refractory, to puniſh them,
F his wiſeſt Counſe 1Jors, whom he commande to receive inſtructi- Gen; 46; 0ns from Joſeph upon all occaſions. 6, 23 * [frael 3 4 ' ned in the land of Haw 5. |
&! fHeb men of numbers
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here, alfo Pſal. 78. 51. and 106. 22 from that curſed Ham, Gen.
6. And the Plalmiſt ſeems to call it by this name, ro intimat that theywere the people of Gods Curle, and thereby tg gaution the |
lars, and that without number.
and there was not one feeble perſon u among their tribes. 35-
People which had been ſo long and ſo dreadfully oppreſſed as the
Iſraelites were, was wonderful ; but they ll journeyed on foot, {of them x fell upon them, ; them»
give light in che night. St. alſo came into Egypt: and Jacob ſojour- | and open Country, had otherwiſe been intolerable to them, eſpe=
g Jacob jn his Perſon and with his Children. + 7. e. Egypt,ſo called |
9. 22. Who was the farher of Mizraim, or the Egyptians, Gen 10. ;
W
L M- « ' Plal. C! Iſraelites againſt returning to that Land, which they were par- [ ticularly forbidden to do, Deut. 17, 16- .
24 And t he increaſed hispeople greatly : and made them ſtronger 5 than their enemies. ;
; Not really, but according to their Enemies Apprehenſions and expreſſiony, Exod. 1-9. Or, more numerous, asthis word iselſewhere uſed. So this latter branch anſwers to the former, And this was true 3 for thouga theygwere not ſimply more in number than the Egyptians, yet they nMtiplied much faſter. oy lf
25 | He turned their heart to hate his people k, to [ Ex: "" | deal ſubtilly with his ſervants 1.--. . ik
k Not by putting this wicked hatred into them, which- is nog conſiſtent cither with the holineſs of Gods nature, or with the . truth of his word, and which was altogether unneceffary, becauſe they had that and all other wickednefs in them by Nature; bur partly by withdrawing the common Gifts and Operations, of his Spirit, and all other reſtraints : and hindrances to it, and wholly leaving them to their own miſtakes and Paſſions, .and corrupt afs fections, which of their'own accord were ready to take that courſe; partly by ordering the affairs of his people in ſuch. manner, as might give them occaſion of hatred ; and partly by dire&ing and governing that hatred, which was wholly in and from themſelves, ſo as it ſhould fall upon the Iſraelites rather than upon other peq- ple. 4 To deſtroy them by crafry devices : of which ſee Exod. re a . * rp...
26 * He ſent Moſes his ſervant; and Aaron whom he E*3% had choſen m. 1
-m To be the companion and interpreter of Moſes in this expe 1 dition, of which ſee Exod. 3e 10. and 14. 12, Oc. This clauſe he | 1 adds, to ſhew that Aaron was no leſs called and choſen by God to 1 this work than Meſes, which otherways was nor ſo evident from the 1 Hiſtory : Or, this clauſe may belong to both Moſes and Aaron. < '
d.
27 || They ſhewed Þ his ftigns # among them, and [Ex0:7: 9 wonders in the land of Ham. + Heb: ', words of his
7 Heb. The words of his ſigns, an emphatical expreſſion. Firſt, they boldly declared the word and will of God. concerning the ſeveral-® ** Plagues, and then they actually inflicted them, —
28 * He ſent darkneſs and made it dark : and they *Ex:0:22} rebelled not againſt his word 6. |