* Jacob sends ten sons to buy corn. (1-6) Joseph's treatment of his
brethren. (7-20) Their remorse, Simeon detained. (21-24) The rest
return with corn. (25-28) Jacob refuses to send Benjamin to Egypt.
(29-38)... [ Continue Reading ]
1-6 Jacob saw the corn his neighbours had bought in Egypt, and brought
home. It is a spur to exertion to see others supplied. Shall others
get food for their souls, and shall we starve while it is to be had?
Having discovered where help is to be had, we should apply for it
without delay, without shr... [ Continue Reading ]
7-20 Joseph was hard upon his brethren, not from a spirit of revenge,
but to bring them to repentance. Not seeing his brother Benjamin, he
suspected that they had made away with him, and he gave them occasion
to speak of their father and brother. God, in his providence,
sometimes seems harsh with th... [ Continue Reading ]
21-24 The office of conscience is to bring to mind things long since
said and done. When the guilt of this sin of Joseph's brethren was
fresh, they made light of it, and sat down to eat bread; but now, long
afterward, their consciences accused them of it. See the good of
afflictions; they often pro... [ Continue Reading ]
25-28 The brethren came for corn, and corn they had: not only so, but
every man had his money given back. Thus Christ, like Joseph, gives
out supplies without money and without price. The poorest are invited
to buy. But guilty consciences are apt to take good providences in a
bad sense; to put wrong... [ Continue Reading ]
29-38 Here is the report Jacob's sons made to their father. It
troubled the good man. Even the bundles of money Joseph returned, in
kindness, to his father, frightened him. He laid the fault upon his
sons; knowing them, he feared they had provoked the Egyptians, and
wrongfully brought home their mo... [ Continue Reading ]