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53 - Commentary on The Book of Genesis · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifty. Here is one the preparation for Jacob's funeral
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  Speaker 1: Verses one to six, two, the funeral itself verses seven
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  Speaker 1: to fourteen, three, The setting of a good understanding between
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  Speaker 1: Joseph and his brethren after the death of Jacob Verses
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  Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty one. Four, The age and death of
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Verses twenty two to twenty six. Thus the book
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis, which began with the origin of light and life,
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  Speaker 1: ends with nothing but death and darkness. So said a
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  Speaker 1: change Sin has made the burial of Jacob b. C.
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  Speaker 1: Sixteen eighty nine, Verses one two six. And Joseph fell
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  Speaker 1: upon his father's face and wept unto him and kissed him.
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  Speaker 1: And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians, to embalm his father.
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  Speaker 1: And the physicians embalmed Israel, and forty days were fulfilled
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  Speaker 1: for him, for so are fulfilled the days of those
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  Speaker 1: which are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for him threescore
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  Speaker 1: and ten days. And when the days of his morning
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  Speaker 1: were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying,
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  Speaker 1: if now I have found grace in your eyes, speak
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  Speaker 1: I pray you in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, my
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  Speaker 1: father made me swear, saying, lo, I die in my
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  Speaker 1: grave which I have digged for me in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Canaan. There shalt thou bury me. Now, therefore let
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  Speaker 1: me go up. I pray thee and bury my father,
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  Speaker 1: and I will come again. And Pharaoh said, go up
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  Speaker 1: and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph is here paying his last respects to his deceased
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  Speaker 1: father one, with tears and kisses and all the tender
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  Speaker 1: expressions of filial affection. He takes leave of the deserted
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  Speaker 1: body Verse one. Though Jacob was old and decrepit and
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  Speaker 1: must needs die in the course of nature, though he
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  Speaker 1: was poor comparatively and a constant charge to his son Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: he had such an affection he had for a loving father,
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  Speaker 1: and so sensible he was of the laws of a prudent, pious,
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  Speaker 1: praying father, that he could not part with him without
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  Speaker 1: floods of tears. Note as it is an honor to
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  Speaker 1: die lamented, so it is the duty of survivors to
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  Speaker 1: lament the death of those who have been useful in
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  Speaker 1: their day, though for some time they may have survived
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  Speaker 1: their usefulness. The departed soul is out of reach of
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  Speaker 1: our tears and kisses, but with them it is proper
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  Speaker 1: to show our respect to the poor body, of which
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  Speaker 1: we look for a glorious and joyful resurrection. Thus Joseph
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  Speaker 1: showed his faith in God and loved to his father
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  Speaker 1: by kissing his pale and cold lips, and so giving
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  Speaker 1: an affectionate farewell. Probably the rest of Jacob's sons did
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  Speaker 1: the same. Much moved no doubt with his dying words.
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  Speaker 1: Two he ordered the body to be embalmed. First two
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  Speaker 1: not only because he died in Egypt, and that was
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  Speaker 1: the manner of the Egyptians, but because he was to
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  Speaker 1: be carried to Canaan, which would be a work of time,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore it was necessary the body should be preserved
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  Speaker 1: as well as it might be from faction. See how
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  Speaker 1: vile our bodies are when the soul has forsaken them.
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  Speaker 1: Without a great deal of art and pains and care,
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  Speaker 1: they will in a very little time become noisome. If
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  Speaker 1: the body had been dead four days by that time
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  Speaker 1: it was offensive. Three he observed the ceremony of solemn
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  Speaker 1: mourning for him Verse three. Forty days were taken up
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  Speaker 1: in embalming the body, which the Egyptians, they say, had
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  Speaker 1: an art of doing so curiously as to preserve the
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  Speaker 1: very features of the face unchanged. All this time and
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  Speaker 1: thirty days more seventy in all they either confined themselves
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  Speaker 1: or sat solitary, or when they went out, appeared in
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  Speaker 1: the habit of clothes mourners, according to the decent custom
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  Speaker 1: of the country. Even the Egyptians, many of them, out
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  Speaker 1: of the great respect they have for Joseph, whose good
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  Speaker 1: offices done for the king and country were now fresh
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  Speaker 1: in remembrance, put themselves into mourning for his father. As
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  Speaker 1: with us, when the court goes into mourning, those the
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  Speaker 1: best quality do so too. About ten weeks was the
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  Speaker 1: court of Egypt in mourning for Jacob. Note what they
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  Speaker 1: did in state we should do in sincerity. Weep with
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  Speaker 1: those that weep, and mourn with those that mourn, as
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  Speaker 1: being ourselves also in the body. Four he asked and
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  Speaker 1: obtained leave of Pharaoh to go to Canaan, thither to
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  Speaker 1: attend the funeral of his father Verses four to six.
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  Speaker 1: Sub one. It was a piece of necessary respect to
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh that he would not go without leave for we
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  Speaker 1: may suppose that though his charge above the corn was
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  Speaker 1: long since over, yet he continued a prime Minister of State,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore would not be so long absent from his
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  Speaker 1: business without license. Sob. Two he observed a decorum in
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  Speaker 1: employing some of the royal family or some of the
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  Speaker 1: officers of the household to intercede for this license, either
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  Speaker 1: because it was not proper for him, in the days
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  Speaker 1: of his mourning, to come into the presence chamber, or
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  Speaker 1: because he would not presume too much upon his own interest.
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  Speaker 1: Note modesty is a great ornament to dignity. Three. He
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  Speaker 1: pleaded the obligation his father had laid upon him by
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  Speaker 1: an oath to bury him in Canaan verse five. It
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  Speaker 1: was not from pride or humor, but from his regard
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  Speaker 1: to an indispensable duty that he desired it. All nations
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  Speaker 1: reckoned that oas must be performed, and the will of
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  Speaker 1: the dead must be observed. Sub Four. He promised to return.
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  Speaker 1: I will come again when we return to our houses.
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  Speaker 1: From burying the bodies of our relations. We say we
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  Speaker 1: have left them behind. But if their souls have gone
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  Speaker 1: to our heavenly father's house, we may say with more
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  Speaker 1: reason they have left us behind. Sub five, he obtained
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  Speaker 1: leave verse six, go and bury thy father. Pharaoh was
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  Speaker 1: willing his business should stand still so long, but the
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  Speaker 1: serface of Christ is more needful, and therefore he would
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  Speaker 1: not allow one that had work to do for him
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  Speaker 1: to go first and bury his father. No, let the
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  Speaker 1: dead bury their dead. Matthew Chapter eight, verses twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: verse seven, two fourteen. And Joseph went to bury his father,
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  Speaker 1: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: the elders of his house, and all the elders of
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  Speaker 1: the land of Egypt, and all the house of Joseph
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  Speaker 1: and his brethren, and his father's house, only their little ones,
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  Speaker 1: and their flocks and their herds. They left in the
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  Speaker 1: land of Goshen. And there went up with him both
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  Speaker 1: chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great company.
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  Speaker 1: And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which
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  Speaker 1: is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great
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  Speaker 1: and sore lamentation. And he made a mourning for his
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  Speaker 1: father seven days. And when the inhabitants of the land,
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  Speaker 1: the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the floor of Atad,
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  Speaker 1: they said this is a grievous morning to the Egyptians,
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  Speaker 1: wherefore the name of it was called Abel Misram, which
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  Speaker 1: is beyond Jordan. And his sons did unto him according
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  Speaker 1: as he commanded them. For his sons carried him to
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  Speaker 1: the land of Canaan and buried him in a cave
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  Speaker 1: in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the
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  Speaker 1: field for possession of a burying place of Ephron the Hittite.
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  Speaker 1: Before Mamri and Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his
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  Speaker 1: brethren and all that went with him to bury his father.
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  Speaker 1: After he buried his father, we have here an account
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  Speaker 1: of Jacob's funeral. Other funerals of the kings of Judah,
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  Speaker 1: usually no more is said than this. They were buried
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  Speaker 1: with their fathers in the city of David. But the
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  Speaker 1: funeral of the patriarch Jacob is more largely and fully described,
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  Speaker 1: to show how much better God was to him than
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  Speaker 1: he expected. He had spoken more than once of dying
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  Speaker 1: for grief and going to the grave bereaved of his children.
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  Speaker 1: But behold, he dies in honor and is followed to
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  Speaker 1: the grave by all his children. And also because his
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  Speaker 1: orders concerning his burial were given and observed in faith
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  Speaker 1: and in expectation, both of the earthly and the heavenly.
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  Speaker 1: Canaan now one, it was a stately funeral. He was
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  Speaker 1: attended to the grave not only by his own family,
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  Speaker 1: but by the courtiers and all the great men of
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom, who, in token of their gratitude to Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: showed this respect to his father for his sake, and
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  Speaker 1: did him honor at his death. Though the Egyptians had
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  Speaker 1: had an apathy to the Hebrews and had looked upon
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  Speaker 1: them with disdain a Chapter forty three, verse thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: yet now that they were better acquainted with them, they
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  Speaker 1: began to have a respect for them. Good Old Jacob
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  Speaker 1: had conducted himself so well among them as to give
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  Speaker 1: universal esteem. Note professors of religion should endeavor, by wisdom
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  Speaker 1: and love to remove the prejudices which many have conceived
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  Speaker 1: against them, because they do not know them. There went
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  Speaker 1: abundance of chariots and horsemen, not only to attend them
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  Speaker 1: a little way, but to go through with them. Note
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  Speaker 1: the decent solemnities of funerals, according to a man's situation,
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  Speaker 1: are very commendable, and we must not say of them
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  Speaker 1: to what purposes this waste See Acts chapter eight, verse two,
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  Speaker 1: Luke chapter seven, verse twelve two. It was a sorrowful
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  Speaker 1: funeral Verses ten and eleven. Standersby took notice of it
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  Speaker 1: as a grievous morning. Note the death of good men
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  Speaker 1: is a great loss to any place, and ought to
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  Speaker 1: be greatly lamented. Stephen dies a martyr, and yet devout
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  Speaker 1: men make great limitations for him. The solemn morning for
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  Speaker 1: Jacob gave a name to the place Abel Misram, the
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  Speaker 1: mourning of the Egyptians, which served for testimony against the
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  Speaker 1: next generation of Egyptians, who oppressed the posterity of this Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: to whom their ancestors showed such respect. Joseph comforts his
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  Speaker 1: brethren b c. Sixteen eighty nine, Verses fifteen to twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead,
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  Speaker 1: they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly
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  Speaker 1: requit us all the evil which we did unto him.
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  Speaker 1: And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying thy father
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  Speaker 1: did command before he died, saying, so shall ye say
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  Speaker 1: unto Joseph, forgive I pray thee Now the trespass of
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  Speaker 1: thy brethren and their sin, for they did unto THEE evil.
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  Speaker 1: And now we pray THEE forgive the trespass of thy
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  Speaker 1: so of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept
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  Speaker 1: when he spake unto them, and his brethren also went
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  Speaker 1: and fell down before his face, and they said, behold,
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  Speaker 1: we be thy servants. And Joseph said, unto them, fear not,
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  Speaker 1: for am I in the place of God. But as
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  Speaker 1: for you, ye thought evil against me, But God meant
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  Speaker 1: it unto good to bring it to pass as it
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  Speaker 1: is this day, to save much people alive. Now therefore,
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  Speaker 1: fear ye not. I will nourish you in your little ones.
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  Speaker 1: And he comforted them and spake kindly unto them. We
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  Speaker 1: have here the setting of a good correspondence between Joseph
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  Speaker 1: and his brethren, now that their father was dead. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: was at court in the royal city. His brethren were
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  Speaker 1: in Goshen, remote in the country. Yet the keeping up
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  Speaker 1: of a good understanding and a good affection between them
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  Speaker 1: would be both his honor and their interest. Note. When
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  Speaker 1: Providence has removed the parents by death, the best methods
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  Speaker 1: ought to be taken, not only for the preventing of
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  Speaker 1: quarrels among the children, which often happen about the dividing
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  Speaker 1: of the estate, but for the preserving of acquaintance and love,
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  Speaker 1: that unity may continue even when that center of unity
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  Speaker 1: is taken away. Roman Ie, Joseph's brethren humbly make their
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  Speaker 1: court to him for his favor. One, they began to
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  Speaker 1: be jealous of Joseph, not that he had given them
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  Speaker 1: any cause to be so. But the consciousness of guilt
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  Speaker 1: and of their own inability in such a case to
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  Speaker 1: forgive and forget, made them suspicious of the sincerity and
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  Speaker 1: constancy of Joseph's favor. Verse fifteen. Joseph will peradventure hate us.
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  Speaker 1: While their father lived, they thought themselves safe under his shadow,
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  Speaker 1: But now that he was dead, they feared the worst
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  Speaker 1: from Joseph. Note A guilty conscience exposes men to continual
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  Speaker 1: frights even where no fear is, and makes them suspicious
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  Speaker 1: of everybody. As Cain, Chapter four, verse fourteen, those that
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  Speaker 1: would be fearless must keep themselves guiltless. If our heart
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  Speaker 1: reproach us not, then we have confidencedence, both towards God
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  Speaker 1: and man. Two. They humbled themselves before him, confessed their
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  Speaker 1: fault and begged his pardon. They did it by proxy
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  Speaker 1: verse seventeen. They did it in person. Verse eighteen. Now
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  Speaker 1: that the sun and moon had set, the eleven stars
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  Speaker 1: did homage to Joseph for the further accomplishment of his dream.
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  Speaker 1: They speak of their former offense with fresh regret. Forgive
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  Speaker 1: the trespass. They throw themselves at Joseph's feet and refer
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  Speaker 1: themselves to his mercy. We are thy servants. Thus we
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  Speaker 1: must bewail the sins we committed long ago, even those
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  Speaker 1: which we hope, through grace are forgiven. And when we
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  Speaker 1: pray to God for pardon, we must promise to be
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  Speaker 1: his servants. Three. They pleaded their relation to Jacob and
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  Speaker 1: Jacob's God sub one to Jacob, urging that he directed
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  Speaker 1: them to make this submission rather because he questioned whether
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  Speaker 1: they would do their duty in humbling themselves, than because
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  Speaker 1: he questioned whether Joseph would do his duty in forgiving them.
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  Speaker 1: Nor could he reasonably expect Joseph's kindness to them unless
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  Speaker 1: they qualified themselves for it. Verse sixteen. Thy Father did command,
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  Speaker 1: Thus in humbling ourselves to Christ by faith and repentance,
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  Speaker 1: we may plead that it is the command of his
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  Speaker 1: father and our father, that we do so so. Two
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  Speaker 1: to Jacob's God, they pleaded verse seventeen. We are the
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  Speaker 1: servants of the God of thy father, not only the
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  Speaker 1: children of the same Jacob, but worshippers of the same Jehovah. Note,
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  Speaker 1: though we must be ready to forgive all that are
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  Speaker 1: any way injurious to us, yet we must especially take
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  Speaker 1: heed of bearing malice towards any that our servants of
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  Speaker 1: the God of our father. Such we should always treat
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  Speaker 1: with peculiar tenderness, for we as they have the same master.
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  Speaker 1: Roman too. Joseph, with a great deal of compassion, confirms
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  Speaker 1: his reconciliation and affection to them. His compassion appears verse seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: He wept when they spoke to him. These were tears
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  Speaker 1: of sorrow for their suspicion of him, and tears of
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  Speaker 1: tenderness upon their submission. In his reply one, he directs
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  Speaker 1: them to look up to God in their repentance Verse nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: am I in the place of God. He, in his
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  Speaker 1: great humility, thought they showed him too much respect, as
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  Speaker 1: if all their happiness were bound up in his favor.
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  Speaker 1: And he said to them in effect as Peter to Cornelius,
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  Speaker 1: stand up. I myself also am a man. Make your
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  Speaker 1: peace with God, and then you will find it an
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  Speaker 1: easy matter to make your peace with me. Note when
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  Speaker 1: we ask forgiveness of those whom we have offended, we
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  Speaker 1: must take heed of putting them in the place of God,
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  Speaker 1: by dreading their wrath and soliciting their favor more than God's.
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  Speaker 1: Am I in the place of God, to whom alone
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  Speaker 1: vengeance belongs. No, I will leave you to His mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Those that avenge themselves step into the place of God. Romans,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve, Verse nineteen two. He extenuates their fault from
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  Speaker 1: the consideration of the great good which God wonderfully brought
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  Speaker 1: out of it, which, though it shall not make them
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  Speaker 1: the less sorry for their sin, yet might make him
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  Speaker 1: the more willing to forgive it. Verse twenty. You thought
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  Speaker 1: evil to disappoint the dreams, but God meant it unto good,
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  Speaker 1: in order to the fulfilling of the dreams and the
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  Speaker 1: making of Joseph a greater blessing to his family than
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  Speaker 1: otherwise he could have been. Note when God makes use
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  Speaker 1: of men's agency for the performance of his counsels, it
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  Speaker 1: is common for him to mean one thing and them another,
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  Speaker 1: even the quite contrary. But God's counsels shall stand see
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah chapter ten, verse seven. Again, God often brings good
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  Speaker 1: out of evil and promotes the designs of his providence,
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  Speaker 1: even by the sins of men. Not that He is
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  Speaker 1: the author of sin, far be it from us to
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  Speaker 1: think so. But his infinite wisdom so overrules events and
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  Speaker 1: directs the chain of them, that in the issue that
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  Speaker 1: ends in His praise, which in its own nature had
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  Speaker 1: a direct tendency to his dishonor, as the putting of
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  Speaker 1: Christ to death acts Chapter two, verse twenty three. This
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  Speaker 1: does not make sin the less sinful, nor sinners the
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  Speaker 1: less punishable, but it redounds greatly to the glory of
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  Speaker 1: God's wisdom. Three. He assures them of the continuance of
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  Speaker 1: His kindness to them. Fear not, I will nourish you
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty one. See what an excellent spirit Joseph was of,
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  Speaker 1: and learn of him to render good for evil. He
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  Speaker 1: did not tell them they were upon their good behavior,
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  Speaker 1: and he would be kind to them if he saw
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  Speaker 1: they conducted themselves well. No, he would not thus hold
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  Speaker 1: them in suspense, nor seem jealous of them, though they
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  Speaker 1: had been suspicious of him. He comforted them, and to
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  Speaker 1: banish all their fears, he spoke kindly to them. Note,
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  Speaker 1: broken spirits must be bound up and encouraged. Those we
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  Speaker 1: love and forgive. We must not only do well for,
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  Speaker 1: but speak kindly too. The death of Joseph b. C.
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  Speaker 1: Sixteen thirty five Verses twenty two two twenty six, and
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  Speaker 1: Joseph dwelt in Egypt he and his father's house, and
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  Speaker 1: Joseph lived a hundred and ten years, and Joseph saw
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  Speaker 1: Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Mikhar,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Manassah, were brought up upon Joseph's knees,
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  Speaker 1: and Joseph said, unto his brethren, I die, and God
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  Speaker 1: will surely visit you and bring you out of this land,
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  Speaker 1: unto the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac
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  Speaker 1: and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel, saying God will surely visit you, and
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  Speaker 1: ye shall carry up my bones from hence. So Joseph died,
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  Speaker 1: being a hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him,
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  Speaker 1: and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. Here
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  Speaker 1: is Roman I, The prolonging of Joseph's life in Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: He lived to be a hundred and ten years old
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty two, having honored his father. His days were
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  Speaker 1: long in the land which for the present God had
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  Speaker 1: given him. And it was a great mercy to his
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  Speaker 1: relations that God continued him so long, a support and
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  Speaker 1: comfort to them. Roman two. The building up of Joseph's family.
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  Speaker 1: He lived to see his great grandchildren by both his
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  Speaker 1: sons Verse twenty three, and probably he saw his two
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  Speaker 1: sons solemnly owned as heads of distinct tribes, equal to
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  Speaker 1: any of his brethren. It contributes much to the comfort
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  Speaker 1: of aged parents if they see their posterity in a
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  Speaker 1: flourishing condition, especially if with it they see peace upon
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  Speaker 1: Israel Some one hundred and twenty eight ver six. Roman three.
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  Speaker 1: The last Will and Testament of Joseph published in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of his brethren. When he saw his death approaching
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  Speaker 1: those that were properly his brethren, perhaps were some of
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  Speaker 1: them dead before him, as several of them were older
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  Speaker 1: than he. But to those of them who yet survived,
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  Speaker 1: and to the sons of those who were gone, who
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  Speaker 1: stood up in their father's stead, he said this one,
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  Speaker 1: He comforted them with the assurance of their return to
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  Speaker 1: Canaan in due time. I die, but God will surely
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  Speaker 1: visit you verse twenty four. To this purport, Janeacup had
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  Speaker 1: spoken to him Chapter forty eight, verse twenty one. Thus
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  Speaker 1: we must comfort others with the same comforts with which
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  Speaker 1: we ourselves have been comforted of God, and encourage them
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  Speaker 1: to rest on those promises which have been our support.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph was under God both the protector and the benefactor
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  Speaker 1: of his brethren, And what would become of them now
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  Speaker 1: that he was dying? Why let this be their comfort.
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  Speaker 1: God will surely visit you. Note God's gracious visits will
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  Speaker 1: serve to make up the loss of our best friends.
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  Speaker 1: They die, but we may live and live comfortably if
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  Speaker 1: we have the favor and presence of God with us.
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  Speaker 1: He bids them be confident. God will bring you out
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  Speaker 1: of this land, and therefore sub one, they must not
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  Speaker 1: hope to settle there, nor look upon it as their
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  Speaker 1: rest forever. They must set their hearts upon the land
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  Speaker 1: of Promise and call that their home. Sub two. They
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  Speaker 1: must not fear sinking and being ruined there. Probably He
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  Speaker 1: foresaw the ill usage they would meet with there after
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  Speaker 1: his death, and therefore gives them this word of encouragement.
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  Speaker 1: God will bring you in triumph out of this land
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  Speaker 1: at last. Herein he has an eye to the promise
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  Speaker 1: chapter fifteen, verses thirteen fourteen, and in God's name assures
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  Speaker 1: them of the performance of it. Two for a confession
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  Speaker 1: of his own faith and a confirmation of theirs, he
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  Speaker 1: charges them to keep him unburied till that day, that
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  Speaker 1: glorious day should come, when they should be settled in
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  Speaker 1: the land of Promise. Verse twenty five. He makes them
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  Speaker 1: promise with an oath that they will bury him in Canaan.
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  Speaker 1: In Egypt they buried their great men very honorably and
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  Speaker 1: with abundance of pomp. But Joseph prefers a significant burial
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  Speaker 1: in Canaan, and that deferred too, almost two hundred years
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  Speaker 1: before a magnificent one in Egypt. Thus Joseph, by faith
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  Speaker 1: in the doctrine of the resurrection and the promise of Canaan,
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  Speaker 1: gave commandment concerning his bones Hebrews Chapter eleven, verse twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: He dies in Egypt, but lays his bones at stake
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  Speaker 1: that God will surely visit Israel and bring them to
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  Speaker 1: Canaan romanfort the death of Joseph and the resurrection of
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  Speaker 1: the body for a burial. In Canaan verse twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: he was put in a coffin in Egypt, but not
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  Speaker 1: buried till his children had received their inheritance. In Canaan Joshua,
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty four, verse thirty two. Note one, if the
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  Speaker 1: separate soul at death do but return to its rest
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  Speaker 1: with God, the matter is not great, though the deserted
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  Speaker 1: body find not at all, or not quickly its rest
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  Speaker 1: in the grave. Two. Yet care ought to be taken
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  Speaker 1: of the dead bodies of the saints in the belief
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  Speaker 1: of their resurrection, For there is a covenant with the
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  Speaker 1: dust which shall be remembered. And a commandment is given
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  Speaker 1: concerning the bones. End of Chapter fifty and end of
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  Speaker 1: commentary on the Book of Genesis by Matthew Henry