Genesis 44

(3.) God sometimes afflicts with loss of dear relations (Ezekiel 24:16): Son of man behold I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: this is like a pulling away a limb from the body. He takes away a holy child; Jacob's life was bound up in Benjamin (Genesis 44:…

2. In God are Bowels of Complacency. How dearly did Iacob love Benjamin; his life was bound up in him, Genesis 44:30. All the Affections of Parents come from God: they are but a drop of his Ocean, a spark of his flame; Gods love is a love that passes Knowledge, Ephesians 3:19.

The word Hades, that we translate hell, is very often, by the Septuagint, in the Old Testament, used to signify the grave, or the state of the dead. So in Genesis 44, [reconstructed: is Hades], we translate it the grave, but it is the same word that is used for hell in the text.…

A father prizes his child above his estate. How dearly did Jacob prize Benjamin — his life was bound up in the life of the lad (Genesis 44:30). God makes a precious valuation of his children.

(Genesis 22:13): A sacrifice for Isaac, in stead of Isaac. (Genesis 44:33): I shall remain pledge (says Reuben) for the lad — [in non-Latin alphabet] in pledge for the lad. (Numbers 3:12): I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn, in stead of the firstborn.

Fifth, the very phrases of 'dying for us,' 'bearing our sins,' 'being our surety,' and the like, whereby the death of Christ for us is expressed, will not stand with the payment of a ransom for all. To die for another is in scripture to die in that other's stead so that the othe…

The whole Harmony of the work of his mediation, would be disordered by such a supposition. Judah, the Son of Jacob, undertook to be a Bondman instead of Benjamine his Brother, that he might go free, Genesis 44:33. There is no doubt but Joseph might have accepted of the stipulati…

Once it is used in Hithpael, wherein a reciprocal action is denoted, that whereby a man justifies himself. Genesis 44:16. And Judah said, what shall we say unto my Lord? what shall we speak and how shall we justify our selves, God has found out our iniquity? they could plead not…

In undertaking to be Surety for him, as unto his safety and preservation, he engags himself to answer for all that should befall him, for so he adds; if I bring him not unto the, and set him before the, let me be guilty for ever. And on this ground he entreats Joseph, that he mi…

So when our Savior would take off the Woman of Samaria from scoffing, he convinced her of her particular sins (John 4:14-16), this made her to say, Sir, I perceive you are a prophet, and then questions with him about religion; had she been pricked in conscience only, she would h…