corn money. And he did according to the word that Jofeph had spoken. 60....As foon as the morning was light the men were fent away and when they were gone out of the city, and not got far off, Jofeph faid unto the fteward, Up, follow after these men; and when thou dost overtake them, fay unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? Is not this it in which my lord drinketh? Ye have done evil in fo doing. And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these fame words. 61....And they faid unto him, Wherefore faith my lord these words? God forbid that thy fervants fhould do according to this thing. Behold, the money which we found in our facks' mouth brought again unto thee: how then should we fteal out of thy lord's house filver or gold? With whomfoever of thy fervants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen. 62....And he said, Now let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found thall be my fervant; and ye fhall be blameless. Then they speedily took down every man's fack to the ground, and opened every man his fack. And he fearched, and the cup was found in Benjamin's fack. Then they rent their clothes, and returned to the city. And Judah, and his brethren came to Jofeph's house; and they fell before him on the ground, 63....And Jofeph faid unto them, what deed is this. that ye have done? And Judah faid, What fhall we say unto my lord? What shall we speak ? or how fhall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy feryants: Behold, we are my lord's fervants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found. And he faid, God forbid that I should do lo: but the man in whofe hand the cup is found, he fhall be my fervant ; and as for you, get ye up in peace to your father. 64....Then Judah came near unto him, and faid, O my lord, let thy fervant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ear, and let not thine anger burn against thy fervant; for thou art even as Pharaoh. My lord afked his fervants, faying, Have ye a father, or a brother ? 65....And we faid unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. And thou faideft unto thy fervants, Bring him down unto me, that I may fet mine eyes upon him. And we faid unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his father, his father would die. 66....And thou faidft unto thy fervants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye fhall fee my face no more. Now, when we came up unto thy fervant my father, we told him the words of my lord. And our father faid, Go again and buy us a little food. And we faid if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down for we may not fee the man's face except our youngest brother be with us. 67....And thy fervant my father faid unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two fons and the one went out from me, and I faid; furely he is torn in pieces; and I faw him not fince; and if ye take this also from me, and mifchief befall him, ye fhall bring down my gray hairs with forrow to the grave... 68. Now, therefore, when I come to thy fervant my father, and the lad be not with us; (feeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life) it fhall come to pass, when he feeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die and thy fervants fhall bring down the gray hairs of thy fervant our father with forrow to the grave. For thy fervant became furety for the lad unto my fath er, faying, It I bring him not unto thee, then I fhall bear the blame unto my father forever. 69....Now, therefore, I pray thee, let thy fervant abide inftead of the lad a bond man to my Lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. For how fhall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? left perad venture I fee the evil that fhall come on my father.* 70....Then Jofeph could not refrain himfelf before all them that flood by him; and he cried, Caufe every man to go out from me: and there food no man with him while Jofeph made himself known unto his brethAnd he wept aloud and Jofeph faid unto his brethren, I am Jofeph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not antwer him; for they were troubled at his presence.+ ren. * This fpeech of Judah is a firain of the most-pethetic eloquence that ever flowed from a heart bleeding with anguish and I will venture to fay, that there is nothing of the kind in Cicero or Demofthenes,in Virgil or Homer that will bear a comparison with it. "None of Jofeph's brethren are introduced as ultering aught, either to express their prefent joy, or palliate their former injuries to him. On all fides, there immediately enfues a deep and folemn filence; a filence infinitely more eloquent and expreffive, than any thing effe that could have been fubftituted in its place. -Had Thucydides, Herodotus, Livy, or any of the celebrated claffic hiftorians, been employed in writing this hiftory,when they came to this point, they would doubtless, have exhaufted all their fund of eloquence in "furnishing Jofeph's brethren with laboured and studied harangues; which, however fine they might have been 71....And Jofeph faid unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you: and they came near: And he said, I am Jofeph your brother whom ye fold into Egypt. Now, therefore, be not grieved, nor angry with yourfelves, that yé fold me hither for God did fend me before you to preserve life. 72... For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and yet there are five years, in the which there fhall be neither earing nor harvest. And God fent me before you, to fave your lives by a great deliverance. So now, it was not you that fent me hither, but God and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his houfe, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. 73....Hafe ye, and go up to my father, and fay unto him, Thus faith thy fon Jofeph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, and tarry not. And thou fhalt dwell in the land of Gofhen, and thou fhalt be near unto me and there will I nourish thee, left thou, and thy household come to poverty. 74.... And, behold, your eyes fee, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that fpeaketh unto you. And ye fhall tell my father of all my glory in themselves, would nevertheless have been unnatural, and altogether improper on the occafion. For when fuch variety of contrary paffions broke in upon them, what tongue was ableto utter their hurried and diftracted thoughts? When remorse, furprize, fhame, joy and gratitude, ftruped together in their bofoms, how uneloquently would their lips have performed their duty? How unfaithfully their tongues have spoken the language of their hearts? In this cafe, filence was truly eloquent and natural, and tears expreffed what oratory was incapable of." STERNE, in Egypt, and of all that ye have feen: and ye fhall hafte, and bring down my father hither. And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. Moreover, he killed kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them and after that his brethren talked with him. 75....And Jofeph gave them waggons, and gave them provifion for the way. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment ; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of filver, and five changes of rai ment, 76....And to his father he fent after this manner; ten affes laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten laden with corn, and bread, and meat for his father by the way. So he fent his brethren away, and they departed: and he laid unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. 77...And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father; and told him, faying, Jofeph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. And they told him all the words of Jofeph and when he faw the waggons, which Jofeph had fent to carry him, the fpirit of Jacob their father revived. And Jacob faid, it is enough; Jofeph my fon is yet alive; I will go and fee him before I die. : REMARKS. Mofes, the writer of the book of Genefis, befides poffeffing the fpirit of infpiration, might have been aequainted with most of the facts that are recorded in that book, by unquestionable tradition. Methufelah was cotemporary with Adam two hundred and forty three years, |