Genesis 46:1
_The well of the oath. Bersabee._... [ Continue Reading ]
_The well of the oath. Bersabee._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fear not. He might be apprehensive, lest his children should be depraved, living among idolaters, or prefer Egypt before the promised land. He was also afraid to undertake this journey without consulting God. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thence; in thy posterity. Septuagint add at last, or after a long time. Jacob's bones were brought back and buried in Chanaan. (Calmet) --- Eyes, as he is the most dear to thee. Parents closed the eyes of their children in death. The Romans opened them again when the corpse was upon the funeral pir... [ Continue Reading ]
_Daughters. Dina, and grand-daughter Sara, (ver. 17,) and his sons' wives, &c. (Calmet) --- We may observe, that all here mentioned were not born at the time when Jacob went down into Egypt, but they were before he or Joseph died; that is, during the space of 17 or 71 years. See St. Augustine, q. 15... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hesron and Charmi were probably born in Egypt, as Ruben had only two sons, chap. xlii. 37. (Philo.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jamuel. Numbers xxvi. 12, he is called Namuel. --- Jachin is Jarid, 1 Paralipomenon iv. 24. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Were born, afterwards. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Syria. This must be restrained to her seven children. --- Thirty-three, comprising Lia, or Jacob; but without Her and Onan, who were dead. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ephraim. The Septuagint take in here the children of both, Numbers xxvi. 29, 35._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Benjamin. Ten in number; though the Septuagint have only nine, and suppose that some of them were his grandchildren. He was 33 (or 24, Menochius) years old. (Calmet) --- Grotius thinks three names have been made out of two; Echi, Ros, and mophim, out of Ahiram and Supham, as we read, Numbers xxvi.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sons. The Arabic has son. Husim is Suham, (Numbers xxvi. 42,) by change and transposition of letters. (Kennicott)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sixty-six; not including Jacob, Joseph, and his two children, who make up 70, ver. 27. (Deuteronomy x. 22.) The Septuagint taking in Joseph's grandchildren, read 75; in which they are followed by St. Stephen, Acts. vii. 14. See St. Jerome q. Heb. (Calmet) --- St. Augustine cannot account for these... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XLVI.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Abomination. See chap. xliii. 32. The source of this hatred against foreign shepherds, was probably because, about 100 years before Abraham, the shepherd-kings, Hycussos, had got possession of a great part of Egypt, and were at last expelled by the kings of Thebais. See Manetho ap. Eusebius, Præp.... [ Continue Reading ]