GENESIS, TYPICALLY CONSIDERED, CHAPTER 45
GENESIS, TYPICALLY CONSIDERED, CHAPTER 45
Thus morally restored, Joseph at once reveals himself to them; there stood no man with him. Here there is identification for the first time between his person and their fault — and instruction in God’s counsel in it. They had felt the abstract sin before in themselves, but they had not known him who was thus now dealing with them in it; not till then was a complete moral renovation of their heart, by a process of apparent severities, and real grace bringing them to this point of obliged submission and actual reward. The restoring love is most touching and perfect; the mind of the Lord communicated to them, and God’s love made the solution of it all.