GENESIS, TYPICALLY CONSIDERED, CHAPTER 38
GENESIS, TYPICALLY CONSIDERED, CHAPTER 38
Thereupon, in Judah’s history we find the utter wandering and misery of Judah, but therein again, and out of this, the genealogy of grace; he marries Canaanites — sin is in his family — commits fornication with his own daughter-in-law — all was gone wrong. Yet in this sprang Him in whom men should bless, saying: “the Lord make thy house as the house [p. 154] of Pharez, whom Tamar bore unto Judah” — “do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be thou famous in Bethlehem”; though it might be said of him, how hast thou broken forth?