So now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Ver. 8. It was not you that sent me.] Joseph makes the best of an ill matter, that they may not be overwhelmed with grief, and so made a prey to the devil. 2Co 2:11 "After I was made known to myself," saith Ephraim, "I repented." a Get thee, saith Mr Bradford, b God's law as a glass, to look in; so shalt thou see thy face foul arrayed, and so shameful, saucy, mangy, pocky, and scabbed, that thou canst not but be sorry at the contemplation thereof, &c. Especially if thou look to the tag tied to God's law, the malediction, which is such as cannot but make us to cast our currish tails between our legs, if we believe it. But here, to clear our eyesight, and keep us upright, we must anoint our eyes with Christ's eyesalve. Rev 3:17-18 We read of a sensible eyesalve made of Christ's spittle and clay. Joh 9:6 As it were, of the knowledge of Christ by his word which proceedeth out of his mouth, as also of the knowledge of ourselves; who being made of earth, do savour nothing else but earth. c Both of these two knowledges are to be joined and beaten together in a lump; else they help not. For our misery acknowledged, without Christ, breedeth desperation: and Christ, without sense of our vileness, presumption.
a Postquam ostensum fuerit mihi. - Tremell.
b Mr Bradford's Sermon of Repent., pp. 26, 27.
c Bright., in loc.