Genesis 42:3
I. The story of Joseph is a good example of what is meant by
Providence working for the best in the lives of men. Look at the young
foreigner, as he comes to a land not his own; see how he resists the
one great temptation of his age and station; observe how, through
means not of his ow... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 42:9
Jacob became aware of a fact which his brother had not cared to know a
fact for himself and his seed after him. The Being who had made man in
His own image told this man that he was made in His image; taught him
that he was not meant, like the serpent, to go on his belly and eat
dust.... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 42:21
I. Joseph's brethren had not been placed in any peculiar circumstances
of trial since the loss of Joseph; consequently their sin had slept.
There had been nothing to call it to light; they had well-nigh
forgotten it; its heinousness had become dim in the distance. But now
they were in... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 42:36
So spoke the patriarch Jacob when Joseph had been made away with,
Simeon was detained in Egypt, Benjamin threatened, and his remaining
sons were suspected by him and distrusted; when at his door was a
grievous famine, enemies or strangers round about, evil in prospect,
and in the past... [ Continue Reading ]