_THE HISTORY OF JOSEPH IS RESUMED. POTIPHAR MAKES JOSEPH OVERSEER OF HIS HOUSE. POTIPHAR'S WIFE SOLICITS HIM TO A CRIMINAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND, UPON HIS REPEATED REFUSALS, ACCUSES HIM TO HER HUSBAND, BY WHOM HE IS CAST INTO PRISON. HE RECOMMENDS HIMSELF TO THE KEEPER OF THE PRISON._ _Before Christ... [ Continue Reading ]
_GENESIS 39:1_, &C.— _And Joseph,_ &c.] Moses here resumes the history of Joseph, who, he informs us, was so particularly favoured by the Lord, that his blessing attended the house of Potiphar for Jacob's sake. Potiphar, sensible of this, and charmed with the goodness and fidelity of Joseph, raised... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JOSEPH, WAS, &C.— These words should properly begin the next verse. Joseph's mental accomplishments had scarcely recommended him to his master's favour, before his graces of person won the heart of his mistress. But he bravely repelled her temptations; and his answer, Genesis 39:8. deserves to b... [ Continue Reading ]
SEE, HE HATH BROUGHT, &C.— These words breathe the highest indignation: she does not vouchsafe to name her husband; she calls him HE, _see_ HE _hath brought,_ &c. nor will she name Joseph but by an appellation most contemptuous to the AEgyptians; _a Hebrew,_ a _wandering stranger;_ see ch. Genesis 4... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSEPH'S MASTER, &C.— Hasty and credulous, Potiphar sent Joseph into the prisons where state-criminals were kept, where he was at first severely treated; ch. Genesis 40:15. _his feet were hurt with fetters, the iron entered into his soul,_ Psalms 105:18 and there he continued three years; yet the Al... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE KEEPER OF THE PRISON— The underkeeper of the prison (ch. Genesis 40:4.) was as much struck with Joseph as Potiphar had been, and conferred upon him the same kind of trust. See Genesis 40:4. REFLECTIONS.—What savage beast so cruel, as an enraged and slighted woman? While chaste love is consta... [ Continue Reading ]