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 donation, in its ultimate development and consummation. III. How IT IS OJJTAINED. Not by merit, or by works, but by believing, and wait- ing and hoping. "He that believeth shall be saved." "The Lord loveth them that hope in his mercy." "It is good for a man both to hope, and to quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord."-W.
Ver. 18.-A dying saint's exercise. I. AnonATION, "0 Lord I" Jehovah the God of redemption, the su11reme object of worship. 11. MEDITATION. "Thy salvation I" What a tllCmo for the thoughts to dwell on God' a salvation in its origin, in its greatnese, in its freeness, &c. III. EYJ>ECTATION. "For thy salvation do I hope." Hope is the expectation of future good, and presupposes faith as its ground-work and support.-W.
Ver. 26.-Tke separated. one, or Joseph a type of Clirist. Joseph was separated from his brethren- !. IN ms FATHE!l.'B All'll'ECTIONB. Jacob loved him more than any of his other sons. So was Christ the only-begotten and well-beloved Son of the Father. II. 1N ms PERSONAL CHARACTER. Joseph brought unto Jacob the evil report that _he heard circulating about his brethren, thus proving that he had no sympathy with tlieir wicked ways. So Christ wos "holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners." lll. IN HIS HEAVENLY COMMUNICATIONS. Joseph wae favoured above hie brethren in being made the recipient of dreams, and the depositary, as i~ we!e, of Divine si;crcte. And Christ received not the Spirit by measure, so that of him 1t could be s:nd, No man knoweth the Fatl1er but the Son. IV. IN HlB EVIL FORTUNES, Joseph was hated, sold, and practically given over to OH, L, 1-14.] THE BOOK OF GENESIS. 636
death by hie brethren. So was Christ not only despi~ed and rcjectccl by hiH brethren, but sepnrnted from 1111 mankind in the character of his sufferinge ancl death. V. IN IIIB ll'O'l'URE EXALTA'flON. Joseph became the governor of Egypt, and tbe saviour of hie family. And Christ after his reaurrecfion wae exalted to be a Princ'l and a Saviour for mankind.-W. '
EXPOSITION. Kalisch), or Jacob was embalmed by the CHAPTER L. physicians instead of the cm balmers proper Ver. 1.-And Joseph fell upon his fa.ther'a because, not being an Egyptian, he could not face, and wept upon him, e.nd kissed him. be subjected to the ordinary treatment oftho Joseph had no doubt closed the eyes of his embalming art(' Speaker's Commentary')- revered and beloved ;parent, ns .God . l1ed and the physicians embalmed Isra.el. The promised to the patn.arch that he would method of preparing mummies in Ancient (eh. xlvi 4), and now, in demoastrntion both Egypt has been elaborately described, both of the intensity of his love and of the bitter- by Herodotus (ii. 86) and Diodorug Siculus ness of his sonow, he sinks upon the couch (i. 91), and, in the m11in, the accuracy of upon which the lifeless form is lying, bending their descriptions has been confirmed by the over the pallid countenance with warm tears, evidence derived from the mummies them- and imprinting kisses of affection on the selves. According to the mo,t expcnsi vo ~old and irresponsive lip. It is neither un- process, which cost one talent of silver, or natural nor irreligious to mourn for the dead; nbout £250 sterlin~, the brain was first ex. and ho must be callous indeed who can sec tracted through the nostrils by merns of a parent die without an outburst of tender a crooked piece of iron, the skull being grief. thoroughly cleansed of any remaining por- Ver. 2.-And Joseph commanded hisser- tions by rinsing with drugs ; then, through vant~ the physicie.ns-litcrally, the healers, 11n o_pening in the left side made with a sharp 1 Cl 1i!l~10, from !:(~~. to sow ~ogether, to mend, Ethiopian knife ofngateor offlint, the viscera hence to heal, a clnss of persons which were removed, the abdomen being afterwarJs abounded in Ancient Egypt, each physician purified with palm wine and an infusion of being only qualified to treat a. single disorder aromatics; next, the disembowelled corpse (Herod., ii 84). The medical men of Egypt wns filled with every sort of spiccry except were held in high repute abroad, and their frankincense, and the opening sewed up ; assistance was at vano118 times required by after that the stuffed form wns stcepeu. for persons from other countries, e.s, e. g., Cyrus seventy days in natrum or snbcarbona.tc of and Darius (Herod., iii. 1, 132). Their soda obtained from the Libyan desert, ancl knowledgo of medicines was extensive, nnd sometimes in wo.x and tanning, bitumen o.lso is referred to both in sacred (Jer. !xvi. 11) boing employed in later times ; and finally, and profane (Homer, 'Odyssey,' iv. 229) on the expiration of that period, which wos Wl'itings. The Egyptian doctors belonged to scrupulously observed, the body was washed, the sacerdotal order, and were expected to wrapped about with lincu bamlages, smeared know all things relating to the body, e.nd over with gum, clecorntc,l with amulets, diseases and remedies contained in the six sometimes with a network of porcelain bugles, last of the sncrod books of Hermes. Accord. covered with a linen shroud, nnd, in dno in~ to Pliny (vii. 66), the study of medicine course, trnnsferrccl to a mummy caso (vide ongino.ted in Egypt (vide Wilkinson in Raw- Wilkinson's ' .Manners aml Customs of tl10 linson's 'Herodotus,' vol. ii pp. 116, 117), Al1cient E~tians,' yo!. iii. p. 471, eel, 1878; 'fhe physicians employed by Joseph were Rnwlinson s 'Herodotus,' vol. ii. pp. 11S- those attached to his own household, or the 123), court practitioners-to embe.lm his father : Ver. 3.-And forty de.ye were fulfilled -litere.lly, to spice or sea.son (the body ol) his for him; for so are fulfilled the days of father, i e. to prcparo it for burial by menus those who are embalmed : and the Egypt- of aromatics ; -ut aromatihus condircnt (Vul- ians mourned (literally, ,oept) for him three- gate); h>ra1/ua11a1 rov .rarlpa avrov (LXX.), score and ten days-i. c. tho whole period which is putting part of a proceeding for the of mourning, including the forty days for whole (Tayler Lewis). According to Herod- embalming, extended to sove11ty days, a. otus (ii 86), the embalmers b,ilonged to 11 statement which strikingly coinciu.es with distinct hereditary class or guild from the the assertion of Diodorus Siculus (i. 72), ordinary physicians ; but either their fonnn- thot the embalming process occupie,l about tion intc such a sep11rate order of practition- thirty days, whilo the mouruing continnc<l ers wns of Inter origin (Hengstenberg, Kurtz, seventy-two days; th~ ftrst m1111kr, scwuty, 536 THE BOOK OF GKNESIS. [en. r,. 1-14.