Genesis 50:19-26
afraid ........ God <03372 0430> [fear not.]
God <0430> [for am I.]
It belongs to God to execute vengeance, and Joseph did not intend to usurp his prerogative. Thus he instructed his brethren not to fear him, but to fear God; to humble themselves before God, and to seek his forgiveness.
meant ....... intended <02803> [ye thought.]
meant ...... God intended <0430 02803> [God meant.]
provide <03557> [I will nourish.]
kindly <03820> [kindly unto them. Heb. to their hearts.]
110 <03967> [an hundred.]
Joseph's life was the shortest of all the patriarchs; for which Bp. Patrick gives this reason, he was the son of his father's old age.
descendants ............ children ..... son <01121> [the children.]
special inheritance rights <03205> [brought up. Heb. born. Joseph's.]
die <04191> [I die.]
surely ...... lead ... up <06485 05927> [visit you.]
up <05927> [you out.]
swore <07650> [sware.]
oath <07650> [took an.]
come .... Then ....... up <05927> [and ye.]
110 <03967 06235 08141 01121> [being an hundred and ten years old.]
{Ben meah weÆ’iser shanim;} "the son of an hundred and ten years;" the period he lived being personified.
embalmed <02590> [they embalmed.]
CONCLUDING REMARKS. Thus terminates the Book of Genesis, the most ancient record in the world; including the History of two grand and stupendous subjects, Creation and Providence; of each of which it presents a summary, but astonishingly minute and detailed accounts. From this Book, almost all the ancient philosophers, astronomers, chronologists, and historians have taken their respective data; and all the modern improvements and accurate discoveries in different arts and sciences, have only served to confirm the facts detailed by Moses, and to shew, that all the ancient writers on these subjects have approached, or receded from, truth and the phenomena of Nature, in exactly the same proportion as they have followed or receded from, the Mosaic history. The great fact of the deluge is fully confirmed by the fossilised remains in every quarter of the globe. Add to this, that general traditions of the deluge have veen traced among the Egyptians, Chinese, Japanese, Hindoos, Burmans, ancient Goths and Druids, Mexicans, Peruvians, Brazilians, North American Indians, Greenlanders, Otaheiteans, Sandwich Islanders, and almost every nation under heaven; while the allegorical turgidity of these distorted traditions sufficiently distinguishes them from the unadorned simplicity of the Mosaic narrative. In fine, without this history the world would be in comparative darkness, not knowing whence it came, nor whither it goeth. In the first page, a child may learn more in an hour, than all the philosophers in the world learned without it in a thousand years.
