Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
When Jesus would inculcate some of the deepest lessons which he ever taught, he took a little child and set him in the midst of his disciples (Matt. xviii. 2–4), and made that child his text. Truth thus found an inlet into the mind which even the Great Teacher might have attem...
When Jesus would inculcate some of the deepest lessons which he ever taught, he took a little child and set him in the midst of his disciples (Matt. xviii. 2–4), and made that c...
2. CHAPTER II.We have just seen that Joseph’s brethren, moved by envy, sold him to some Ishmaelite merchants, by whom he was carried into Egypt, and there sold as a slave. Regardless of their...
3. CHAPTER III.God has, in his holy providence, made great use of his people in prison. Jeremiah, Daniel, Paul, Silas, and Peter, were all honoured by him in such a place. Luther, while a capt...
4. CHAPTER IV.“Seest thou a man diligent in business? he shall stand before kings: he shall not stand before mean men” (Prov. xxii. 29). Such is one of the sayings of the wisest man, and we s...
5. CHAPTER V.It is instructive to notice how many things were combined, by the providential care of God, to promote the advancement of Joseph: 1. He dreamed; 2. He told his dreams to his bre...
6. CHAPTER VI.The history of Joseph now becomes more and more a history of the triumph of faith over sight, or holiness over sin. Hitherto transgressors have seemed to prosper in their way, a...
7. CHAPTER VII.There can be little doubt that the events recorded in Scripture are designed to illustrate its moral maxims and its religious principles. Distinguishing aright between what the...
8. CHAPTER VIII.“Joseph fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck” (Gen. xlv. 14). Such is the word-picture of which one of our Engravings is a copy. There...
9. xliii. 34), according to the Eastern mode of showing affection, made itplain that the external change in Joseph’s position had not altered his heart. When he first set eyes on Benjamin, he could not refrain his tears, but “sought where to weep; and...
10. CHAPTER IX.If we have witnessed one scene of affection when Joseph embraced his brother Benjamin, we are now to behold another, when the patriarch Jacob meets with his long lost son. We ar...
11. CHAPTER X.We have seen that the son stood before kings, and the father is now to do the same. If we have beheld not a little in former scenes to commend Joseph to our love, we are here to...
12. CHAPTER XI.We have now reached the closing stage of all. For about seventeen years Jacob sojourned in Egypt, and about one hundred and forty-seven here below; but the “evil” of which he co...