...money, they were afraid. "And Jacob, their father, said unto them, me have ye bereaved of my children : Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me." To Jacob's eye it seemed, indeed, as if a dark cloud hung...

...is in fact the hariinger of joy. We are like Jacob, who when deprived of Joseph and Simeon said, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things arc against me" — and yet they were the very steps by which he was to be...

...the cause to him of great and numerous misfortunes. " Me have ye bereaved of my children," said he, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away also ; all these things are against me." It was in vain that Reuben entreated him to be calm,...

...paths in the mighty waters." How was Jacob overset with dark dispensations, when he is made to cry, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away also : me have ye bereaved of my children : all {hose things are against me." David, the man according...

...afflictions, his mind was sunk into a gloomy despondency, and in the bitterness of his soul he cried, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away ; all these things иге against me," was at that moment the object of God's peculiar care ;...

...incarcerated in the Egyptian prison. So, likewise, might his agea father have argued, when he complained, " Joseph is not, and Simeon is not; and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me. " Yet each lived to trace God's good hand in the tribulation,...

...were afraid. . . . 36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye 1>.bereaved-q/'my children: nd Moses stretched 'forth his hand toward heaven ; and there away : all these things are against me. 1 Heb. 'with vahard things. r Ver. 15,'19, 20, " Oh. xxxi'r....

...portion of sorrow, some of it real, and some, the result of his own misconception ; as when he said, "Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away also, all these things are against me." His distress was founded on ignorance and mistake, but...

...life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. Or else, as sure as Pharaoh liveth, ye are but spies. XLII. 36. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me. Joseph is dead, and Simeon is in danger to miscarry in prison,...

...their story and deliver Simeon. " Me," cried the afflicted parent, " ye have bereaved of my children. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away ; all these things are against me." " Slay my two sons," replied Reuben, confident of the probity...