Chapter 44:
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Genesis 44
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Joseph's policy to stay his brethren, and try their
affection for Benjamin. (1-17) Judah's supplication to Joseph. (18-34)
Verses 1-17
Joseph tried how his brethren felt towards Benjamin. Had they envied and hated
the other son of Rachel as they had hated him, and if they had the same want of
feeling towards their father Jacob as heretofore, they would now have shown it.
When the cup was found upon Benjamin, they would have a pretext for leaving him
to be a slave. But we cannot judge what men are now, by what they have been
formerly; nor what they will do, by what they have done. The steward charged
them with being ungrateful, rewarding evil for good; with folly, in taking away
the cup of daily use, which would soon be missed, and diligent search made for
it; for so it may be read, Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, as having a
particular fondness for it, and for which he would search thoroughly? Or, By
which, leaving it carelessly at your table, he would make trial whether you were
honest men or not? They throw themselves upon Joseph's mercy, and acknowledge
the righteousness of God, perhaps thinking of the injury they had formerly done
to Joseph, for which they thought God was now reckoning with them. Even in
afflictions wherein we believe ourselves wronged by men, we must own that God is
righteous, and finds out our sin.
Verses 18-34
Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he
could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor
Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them. Judah's
faithful cleaving to Benjamin, now, in his distress, was recompensed long
afterwards by the tribe of Benjamin keeping with the tribe of Judah, when the
other tribes deserted it. The apostle, when discoursing of the mediation of
Christ, observes, that our Lord sprang out of Judah,
hebrews 7:14; and he not
only made intercession for the transgressors, but he became a Surety for them,
testifying therein tender concern, both for his Father and for his brethren.
Jesus, the great antitype of Joseph, humbles and proves his people, even after
they have had some tastes of his loving-kindness. He brings their sins to their
remembrance, that they may exercise and show repentance, and feel how much they
owe to his mercy.
Chapter 44:
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