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…

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…

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…