...affecting is the reflection, which the treatment they met with extorted from their awakened consciences; " We are verily guilty concerning our " brother, in...hear: therefore is this distress " come upon us." No wonder then, that the heart of Joseph was here melted with pity and tenderness, that he was forced...

...necessay in reading, be divided here. stricken for the sin they had committed twenty years before. " We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that...not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us." (Genesis xlii. 21.) But whether their penitence on this occasion was of a godly sort, we are not informed....

...crime in betraying Christ ! Nor less wa« the distress of Joseph's brethren, when they exclaimed, " We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that...not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us," Conscience is an accurate observer of all our actions, ana will sooner or later reprove, remonstrate,...

...one to another, while in Joseph's presence, (little thinking that he understood the Hebrew language,) We [are] verily guilty concerning our brother, in...not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us. We sold our brother Joseph for a slave, and now чае oursehies are captives ; we would not hear his...

...brother unto me ; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. tl 51 -^"d they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning...not hear : therefore is this distress come upon us. vi2 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child ;...

...present distress to be a judgment, for this crime, inflicted by Heaven. 'They said one to ano~ ther, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that...not hear : Therefore is this distress come upon us. — Behold also his blood is required. From this instructive passage of history, the following observations...

...youngest brother unto me ; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. 21 f k to pay it : for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee ; and it would be sin 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child'; and...

...they were confined and threatened with death in" a foreign land, then did better reflections arise ; " and they " said one to another, we are verily guilty...hear ; therefore is this " distress come upon us." Afflictions, by thus awakening our attention, and quickening a sense of sin and a sorrow for it, yield...

...the shade of Joseph. On their former visit to Egypt, when placed in temporary confinement, they had said one to another, " We are verily guilty concerning...would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.'1 Now, their sin comes again to their remembrance. It seems to be brought home to them. One brother,...

...and they said one to another in their own language, (which they supposed he' did not understand,) " We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that...not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us." They looked upon Joseph, as an austere man, and they well knew that he, being governor of the country,...