Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)Exodus. Joseph Smith Hendricks 1838-1922. Joseph’s father was called out in defense of some brethren who were held and beaten by. 1922: 1973: 1983: 1987: 1988: 1988: 1991: 1992: 1993: 1994: 1995: 1995: 2001: 2002: 2004: 2006: 2006: 2007. Joseph and his Brethren: Joseph: Joseph And His. FOUR SHAPING CENTURIESDEATH AND GROWTHExodus 1: 6 - - Exodus 1: 7. These remarkable words occur in a short section which makes the link between the Books of Genesis and of Exodus. The writer recapitulates the list of the immigrants into Egypt, in the household of Jacob, and then, as it were, having got them there, he clears the stage to prepare for a new set of actors. These few words are all that he cares to tell us about a period somewhat longer than that which separates us from the great Protestant Reformation. He notes but two processes- silent dropping away and silent growth. Seed by seed the tender green spikelets pierce the mould, and the field waves luxuriant in the breeze and the sunshine. Now, then, let us look at this twofold process which is always at work- silent dropping away and silent growth. It seems to me that the writer, probably unconsciously, being profoundly impressed with certain features of that dropping away, reproduces them most strikingly in the very structure of his sentence: . They all died, but not all at the same time. They went one by one, one by one, till, at the end, they were all gone. The two things that appeal to our imagination, and ought to appeal to our consciences and wills, in reference to the succession of the generations of men, are given very strikingly, I think, in the language of my text- namely, the stealthy assaults of death upon the individuals, and its final complete victory. If any of you were ever out at sea, and looked over a somewhat stormy water, you will have noticed, I dare say, how strangely the white crests of the breakers disappear, as if some force, acting from beneath, had plucked them under, and over the spot where they gleamed for a moment runs the blue sea. So the waves break over the great ocean of time; I might say, like swimmers pulled under by sharks, man after man, man after man, gets twitched down, till at the end- ’Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.’ There is another process going on side by side with this. In the vegetable world, spring and autumn are two different seasons: May rejoices in green leaves and opening buds, and nests with their young broods; but winter days are coming when the greenery drops and the nests are empty, and the birds flown. But the singular and impressive thing .
You get these two processes in the closest juxtaposition in ordinary life. There is many a house where there is a coffin upstairs and a cradle downstairs. The churchyard is often the children’s playground. The web is being run down at the one end and woven at the other. And the children of Israel . They were the depositories of God’s purposes for a little while. Are God’s purposes dead because the instruments that in part wrought them are gone? If I might use a very vulgar proverb, . So when the one generation has passed away there is the other to take up the work. Thus the text is a fitting introduction to the continuance of the history of the further unfolding of God’s plan which occupies the Book of Exodus. II. Such being the twofold process suggested by this text, let us next note the lessons which it enforces. In the first place, let us be quite sure that we give it its due weight in our thoughts and lives. Let us be quite sure that we never give an undue weight to the one half of the whole truth. There are plenty of people who are far too much, constitutionally and . But the bulk of us never trouble our heads about either the one or the other, but go on, forgetting altogether that swift, sudden, stealthy, skinny hand that, if I might go back to my former metaphor, is put out to lay hold of the swimmer and then pull him underneath the water, and which will clasp us by the ankles one day and drag us down. Do you ever think about it? If not, surely, surely you are leaving out of sight one of what ought to be the formative elements in our lives. And then, on the other hand, when our hearts are faint, or when the pressure of human mortality- our own, that of our dear ones, or that of others- seems to weigh us down, or when it looks to us as if God’s work was failing for want of people to do it, let us remember the other side- ’And the children of Israel . But then, more particularly, let me say that this double contemplation of the two processes under which we live ought to stimulate us to service. It ought to say to us, . Do you see to it that your little task is in the same line of direction as the great purpose which God is working out- the increasing purpose which runs through the ages.’ An individual life is a mere little backwater, as it were, in the great ocean. But its minuteness does not matter, if only the great tidal wave which rolls away out there, in the depths and the distance amongst the fathomless abysses, tells also on the tiny pool far inland and yet connected with the sea by some narrow, long fiord. If my little life is part of that great ocean, then the ebb and flow will alike act on it and make it wholesome. If my work is done in and for God, I shall never have to look back and say, as we certainly shall say one day, either here or yonder, unless our lives be thus part of the divine plan, ! Seventy years of toiling and moiling and effort and sweat, and it has all come to nothing; like a long algebraic sum that covers pages of intricate calculations, and the pluses and minuses just balance each other; and the net result is a great round nought.’ So let us remember the twofold process, and let it stir us to make sure that . But further, let this double contemplation make us very content with doing insignificant and unfinished work. Joseph might have said, when he lay dying: ! I should not have brought this people down here, even if I have been led hither. I do not see that I have helped them one step towards the possession of the land.’ Do you remember the old proverb about certain people who should not see half- finished work? All our work in this world has to be only what the physiologists call functional. God has a great scheme running on through ages. Joseph gives it a helping hand for a time, and then somebody else takes up the running, and carries the purpose forward a little further. A great many hands are placed on the ropes that draw the car of the Ruler of the world. And one after another they get stiffened in death; but the car goes on. We should be contented to do our little bit of the work. Never mind whether it is complete and smooth and rounded or not. Never mind whether it can be isolated from the rest and held up, and people can say, . A great many threads go to make the piece of cloth, and a great many throws of the shuttle to weave the web. A great many bits of glass make up the mosaic pattern; and there is no reason for the red bit to pride itself on its fiery glow, or the grey bit to boast of its silvery coolness. They are all parts of the pattern, and as long as they keep their right places they complete the artist’s design. Thus, if we think of how . It is not a great trial of a man’s modesty, if he lives near Jesus Christ, to be content to do but a very small bit of the Master’s work. And the last thing that I would say is, let this double process going on all round us lift our thoughts to Him who lives for ever. Moses dies; Joshua catches the torch from his hand. And the reason why he catches the torch from his hand is because God said, ! No man is indispensable for public work or for private affection and solace so long at there is a living Christ for us to hold by.’ Dear brethren, we need that conviction for ourselves often. When life seems empty and hope dead, and nothing is able to fill the vacuity or still the pain, we have to look to the vision of the Lord sitting on the empty throne, high and lifted up, and yet very near the aching and void heart. Christ lives, and that is enough. So the separated workers in all the generations, who did their little bit of service, like the many generations of builders who laboured through centuries upon the completion of some great cathedral, will be united at the last; . All that generation — By degrees wore off. Perhaps all Jacob’s sons died much about the same time, for there was not past seven years’ difference in age between the eldest and the youngest of them, except Benjamin. During more than 2. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived at liberty, the Hebrews increased slowly; only about seventy persons went down into Egypt. There, in about the same number of years, though under cruel bondage, they became a large nation. This wonderful increase was according to the promise long before made unto the fathers. Though the performance of God's promises is sometimes slow, it is always sure. Seventy - See Genesis 4. The object of the writer in this introductory statement is to give a complete list of the heads of separate families at the time of their settlement in Egypt. See the note at Numbers 2. THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED EXODUS. Commentary by Robert Jamieson CHAPTER 1. Ex 1: 1- 2. 2. Increase of the Israelites. Now these are the names—(See Ge 4. No text from Poole on this verse. And Joseph died, and all his brethren.. It is a notion of the Jews, that Joseph died before any of his brethren; see Gill on Genesis 5. Benjamin, they might all die within a little time of each other: according to the Jewish writers (d), the dates of their death were these. Levi lived the longest of them all, and the affliction did not begin till after his death; and the Jewish chronologers say (e) that from his death to the children of Israel's going out of Egypt were one hundred and sixteen years; and they further observe (f), that it could not last more than one hundred and sixteen years, and not less than eighty seven, according to the years of Miriam: and all that generation; in which Joseph and his brethren had lived. These also died, Egyptians as well as Israelites, before the oppression began. Bechai apud Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. Pauline Frederick - Wikipedia. Pauline Frederick (August 1. Her father worked as a yardmaster for the Old Colony Railroad before becoming a salesman. Her parents separated when she was toddler and Fredrick was raised primarily by her mother to whom she remained close for the remainder of her life (her parents divorced around 1. As a girl, she was fascinated with show business, and determined early to place her goals in the direction of the theater. She studied acting, singing and dancing at Miss Blachard's Finishing School in Boston where she later graduated. After pursuing a career as an actress, her father disinherited her (he died in 1. Due to her father's attitude towards her acting career, Pauline adopted the surname . She briefly retired from acting after her first marriage in 1. January 1. 91. 3 in Joseph and His Brethren. In March 1. 92. 7, she won some of her best reviews when she appeared in the play Madame X in London. Frederick did not like acting in sound films and returned to Broadway in 1. When the Bough Breaks. She would continue the remainder of her career appearing in films and also touring in stage productions in the United States, Europe and Australia. Despite having reportedly made a million dollars for her work in silent films, Frederick filed for bankruptcy in 1. 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