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Oh my Lord."No paraphrase," says Dr. A. Clarke, "can heighten the effect of Judah's address to Joseph. To add, would be to diminish its excellence; to attempt to explain, would be to obscure its beauties; to clothe the ideas in other language than that of Judah, and his translators in our Bible, would ruin its energy, and destroy its influence. It is perhaps one of the most tender, affecting pieces of natural oratory ever spoken or penned: and we need not wonder to find that, when Joseph heard it, he could not refrain himself, but wept aloud. His soul must have been insensible beyond what is common to human nature, had he not immediately yielded to a speech so delicately tender, and so powerfully impressive."

let thy.

18:30,32; 2Sa 14:12; Job 33:31; Ac 2:29

anger.

Ex 32:22; Es 1:12; Ps 79:5

as Pharaoh.

41:40,44; Pr 19:12; Da 3:15,19-23; 5:19; Joh 5:22

42:7-10; 43:7,29

we said.Every word in this verse is simplicity and pathos itself. No man of the least sensibility can read it without great emotion. Indeed the whole speech is exquisitely beautiful, and perhaps the most complete pattern of genuine natural eloquence extant in any language. When we read this generous speech, we forgive Judah all the past, and cannot refuse to say, "Thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise."

49:8

a child.

35:18; 37:3,19; 43:7,8; 46:21

and his brother.

37:33-35; 42:36,38

he alone.

27-29; Lu 7:12

Bring.

42:15,20; 43:29

that I may.

Jer 24:6; 40:4; Am 9:4

his father would die.

we told him.

43:2,5

29:18-21,28; 30:22-25; 35:16-18; 46:19

the one.

37:13,14

Surely.

37:33; 42:36,38

And if.

42:36,38; 43:14; Ps 88:3,4

sorrow.

31; 42:38; De 31:17; Ps 88:4

When I.

17,31,34

his life

1Sa 18:1; 25:29; 2Sa 18:33

when he.

1Sa 4:17,18; 2Co 7:10; 1Th 4:13

servants shall.

29; 37:26,27,35; 1Sa 22:22

grave.

29; 37:35

43:8,9,16

therefore.What must Benjamin have felt when he heard his brother conclude his speech by a proposal which could never have been thought of if it had not been actually made! Perhaps the annals of the whole world do not produce an instance of so heroic and disinterested affection in any mere man.

I pray thee.

Ex 32:32; Ro 5:7-10; 9:3

instead.

Heb 7:22; 1Jo 3:16

lest.

1Sa 2:33,34; 2Ch 34:28; Es 8:6; Jer 52:10,11

come on. Heb. find.

Ex 18:8; Job 31:29; Ps 116:3; 119:143; *marg: