Genesis 46

The body is sensible of joy as well as the soul: and indeed we shall not be in all our glory, till our bodies are re-united to our souls. Consider what joy there will be at the re-uniting of the body and soul at the Resurrection: look what sweet embraces of joy were between old…

But Saint Peter speaks here of spiritual loins. Whereas the Scripture speaks of the body, and calls that part the loins, from which from the Father proceeds natural generation, according as we read in Genesis 46, that Christ should spring out of the loins of Judah. Therefore cor…

Think how that change and unexpected turn of Providence affected his soul: it is with our hopes and prayers as with our Alms, Cast your bread on the waters, for you shalt find it after many days, Ecclesiastes 11:1 or as it was with Jacob, who had given ovr all hopes of ever seei…

From there to the departure out of Egypt, and the giving of the Law that ensued, are 430 years. It is evident then, that by the sojourning and peregrination of the children of Israel, not their mere abode in Egypt, which after their going down (Genesis 46) was only 215 years, or…

If a man had so many cattle, so many sheep, so many oxen, etc., they knew his estate, what gold and silver or other riches he might have. When the sons of Jacob came before Pharaoh (Genesis 46:32), they are called shepherds: The men are shepherds, for their trade has been to fee…

For God is said to be with Moses mouth, not onely giving him eloquence, and a tongue, but the Lord spoke in him to Pharaoh (Exodus 4:15), "I will be with your mouth, and with Aarons mouth, and teach you what to doe." "Fear not, Jacob, to go down to Egypt, I will go down with you…

O my God, let me make sure work for such a day. If I now get real union with your Son, I shall awake with singing out of the dust: And then, as you saidst to Jacob, so to me, when I go down into the Sea or Grave, Genesis 46:3, 4. Fear not to go down into the deep; for I will sur…

For in those countries, men for want of water, were at death's door: as we may see in the example of Sisera (Judges 4:19), and Samson, chap. 15:18. The seventh allegation: Genesis 43:8 — Judah, Joseph's brother, calls his brother Benjamin a lad, or a boy, "Send the boy with me,"…