George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Genesis 50:17
Wept, that they should entertain no doubts respecting the reconciliation, which had taken place seventeen years before. (Haydock)
Wept, that they should entertain no doubts respecting the reconciliation, which had taken place seventeen years before. (Haydock)
Verse Genesis 50:17. _THE SERVANTS OF THE GOD OF THY FATHER._] These words were wonderfully well chosen, and spoken in the most forcible manner to Joseph's _piety_ and _filial_ affection. No wonder th...
- The Burial of Jacob 10. אטד _'āṭâd_ Atad, “the buck-thorn.” 11. מצרים אבל _'ābêl_-_mı̂tsrayı̂m_, Abel-Mitsraim, “mourning of Mizraim,” or meadow of Mizraim. This chapter records the burial of...
CHAPTER 50 THE BURIAL OF JACOB AND JOSEPH'S RETURN AND DEATH _ 1. The grief of Joseph (Genesis 50:1)_ 2. The burial (Genesis 50:4) 3. The return to Egypt (Genesis 50:14) 4. The death of Joseph ...
DISCOURSE: 62 JOSEPH’S BRETHREN FULFILLING THE PROPHECY RESPECTING THEM Genesis 50:15. And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will...
AND NOW, WE PRAY THEE, FORGIVE THE TRESPASS OF THE SERVANTS OF THE GOD OF THY FATHER— What a conjuration of pardon, says Bishop Hall, was this! What wound could be either so deep, or so festered, that...
PART FORTY-SEVEN THE LAST DAYS OF JACOB AND JOSEPH (Genesis 48:1 to Genesis 50:26) The Biblical Account 48 And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick:...
_AND WHEN JOSEPH'S BRETHREN SAW THAT THEIR FATHER WAS DEAD, THEY SAID, JOSEPH WILL PERADVENTURE HATE US, AND WILL CERTAINLY REQUITE US ALL THE EVIL WHICH WE DID UNTO HIM._ When Joseph's brethren saw...
THE BURIAL OF JACOB, AND DEATH OF JOSEPH 2. For the importance attached by the Egyptians to the preservation of the corpse see on Genesis 40:19. The process, which was so thorough that mummies of Jose...
‘Joseph wept.’ Joseph had already forgiven his brothers but his brothers did not trust him. Joseph wept because they did not trust him....
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 50 JOSEPH BURIES HIS FATHER V1 Then Joseph bent himself down over his father’s face. He wept over him and he kissed him. V2 And Joseph told his s...
THY FATHER DID COMMAND... — Many Jewish expositors consider that this was untrue, and that Jacob was never made aware of the fact that his brethren had sold Joseph into slavery. It is, however, probab...
כֹּֽה ־תֹאמְר֣וּ לְ יֹוסֵ֗ף אָ֣נָּ֡א שָׂ֣א נ֠
JOSEPH LOVES UNTIL HIS DEATH Genesis 50:15 The fear of Joseph's brethren illustrates the insecurity of a position which is conceded only at the bidding of the tender caprice of love, apart from satis...
Here we have a strange and wonderful sight. Jacob was buried with Egyptian pomp, yet in the land of promise. Thus, at last, after a career checkered from the beginning, Jacob entered into his rest. Th...
JOSEPH'S FINAL DAYS Joseph had experienced Egyptians embalm Jacob's body, which took forty days. For seventy days, the Egyptians mourned Jacob's death. Joseph asked Pharaoh to allow him to take his fa...
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the (e)...
How sweet to this purpose are those gospel precepts, and how much the influence of them, arising from the same Almighty SPIRIT'S gift, was on the mind of Joseph! Colossians 3:12; Matthew 6:12; Ephesia...
Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
17._Forgive, I pray thee now_. They do not dissemble the fact that they had grievously sinned; and they are so far from extenuating their fault, that they freely heap up words in charging themselves w...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 48, 49, AND 50. Lastly, in chapter 48 besides the prophetical character important in the history of Israel we see Joseph as heir; the double portion (mark of...
SO SHALL YE SAY UNTO JOSEPH, FORGIVE, I PRAY THEE NOW, THE TRESPASS OF THY BRETHREN, AND THEIR SIN,.... Their very great sin, and therefore more words than one are used to express it: unless this repe...
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God...
_Forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father_ Not only children of the same Jacob, but worshippers of the same Jehovah. Though we must be ready to forgive all that injure us, yet we...
1 The mourning for Iacob. 4 Ioseph getteth leaue of Pharaoh to goe to bury him. 7 The funerall. 15 Ioseph comforteth his brethren, who craued his pardon. 22 His age. 23 He seeth the third generat...
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for they did unto thee evil. So the sons' fear of Joseph's revenge had caused them to make a full con...
Joseph Reassures his Brothers...
ELEVENTH SECTION _Joseph’s mourning. Jacob’s burial in Canaan. The brothers’ dread of Joseph. His word of peace and trust for them. Joseph’s last provision for his own return home to Canaan after dea...
JACOB'S BURIAL (vs.1-14) The sorrow of Joseph over his father's death is seen in verse 1. It is an interesting study to consider the times in which Joseph is recorded as weeping. In contrast to buria...
15-21 Various motives might cause the sons of Jacob to continue in Egypt, notwithstanding the prophetic vision Abraham had of their bondage there. Judging of Joseph from the general temper of human n...
THE GOD OF THY FATHER, for whose sake pardon those that join with thee in his worship. JOSEPH WEPT; partly in compassion to their fear and trouble; and partly because they still retained a diffidence...
On which we shall dwell more particularly. There is not in scripture a more perfect and beautiful type of Christ than Joseph. Whether we view Christ as the object of the Father's love, the object of t...
Genesis 50:17 say H559 (H8799) Joseph H3130 you H577 forgive H5375 (H8798) trespass H6588 brothers H251 sin...
THE BROTHERS FEAR FOR THEIR LIVES ON THE DEATH OF JACOB (50:14-21). The prime purpose of this section is not so much to deal with the brothers' fears with respect to Joseph as to stress that all that...
CONTENTS: Jacob's burial. Joseph's death. CHARACTERS: Jacob, Joseph, brothers. CONCLUSION: As it is an honor to die lamented, so it is a duty to honor the dead who have been useful in the Lord. Sinc...
Genesis 50:2. _The physicians embalmed Israel._ The Egyptians in early times built pyramids to contain their dead, and they preserved them from putrefaction by balsomic paste. This was performed by ph...
_Forgive_ THE MESSAGE OF HIS BRETHREN TO JOSEPH: The death of great characters being often followed by great changes; conscious guilt being always alive to fear; and the chasm which succeeds a funer...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 50:15 Afraid to address Joseph face-to-face, the brothers send a MESSAGE confessing their guilt and seeking his forgiveness....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 50:15. Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.] The literal rendering is—_If Joseph should now punish us_, _and re...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 50:15 AND WHEN (literally _and_)_ _JOSEPH'S BRETHREN SAW THAT THEIR FATHER WAS DEAD, THEY (literally, and they) SAID, JOSEPH WILL PERADVENTURE HATE US,—literally, _If Joseph _hated...
And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and he wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days...
Forgive. Matthew 6:12 Matthew 6:14 Matthew 6:15 Matthew 18:35 Luke 17:3...
We are the servants of the God of thy father — Not only children of the same Jacob, but worshippers of the same Jehovah. Though we must be ready to forgive all that injure us, yet we must especially t...