And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
Ver. 17. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph.] Pharaoh is good to Jacob and his house, for Joseph's sake; so is God to us and ours, for Jesus' sake. As any man was intimate with Sejanus, so he found favour with Tiberius. As if any were at odds with him, they lived in continual danger and durance, saith Tacitus; a so here.
O miserabilis humana conditio, et sine Christo, vanum omne quod vivimus, saith Jerome. - Epitaph. Nep., tom. i. p. 25.
O the misery of those that be without Christ in the world!
a Ut quisque Seiano intimus, ita ad Caesaris amicitiam validus: contra, quibus infensus esset, metu ac sordibus conflictabantur. - Tacit.