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slave’s place are all illumined with the radiance of the glory which God sheds.
ren. He is quick to notice the bowed heads. “Be not grieved,” he says. The heart of Joseph is full of compassion. He has no desire to upbraid them; nor purpose to con demn them; he has fully forgiven them their wrong. Already their consciences had convicted them and they were in the bonds of distress'—now he seeks to alleviate their mental anguish, “Come near to me.” So it was with Jesus after the resurrection when His disciples stood in awe of His presence, He said, “Behold my hands and my feet.” The testimony of His love lay in His sacrifice for them. So now the heart of Joseph yearns for the loving affec tion of his brethren from whom he has been so long separated. So love will not be satisfied with ought but reciprocated love. Look away from this picture to that of the Lord Jesus who with outstretched arms says to the world which crucified Him, “Come unto me and I will give you rest.” “And they came near.” The hand that is stretched out with au thority over Egypt is now extended in friendship to them. The place of peace is near to Jesus. Come near, beloved, come closer to Him; let Him breathe upon you the breath of love. “It was not ye who sent me hither but God.” Joseph is an interpreter of dreams, but he is also an interpreter of Provir dence. Joseph sees the hand of God in all the affairs of life. He sees that be hind and beyond the acts of his brethren lay the great purpose of God for his life. The brethren had sinned woefully and he had suffered wrongfully, but God was work ing wonderfully through it all. “All things work together for good to those who love the Lord.” Here is a needed lesson. It is blessed to see the purpose of God in His providences; see it while passing through them, before the light of the future falls upon them. See how God makes pain and parting, disease and disaster, poverty and persecution to minister through His grace His blessing. The way seems a strange one, but when we reach the goal of the throne and look back, the prison and the
Jewish Views About Christ. Mr. Claude Montefiore: “The most im portant Jew that has ever lived, to whom the sinner and the outcast, age after age, have owed a great debt of gratitude." Dr. Isidore Singer: “I regard Jesus of Nazareth as a Jew of the Jews, one whom all Jewish people are learning to love. We are glad to claim Jesus as one of our own people.” Dr. Berkowitz: “In Jesus there is the very flowering of Judaism, the noblest rabbi of them all.” Jacob Schiff: “We Jews honor and re vere Jesus of Nazareth as we do our own prophets.” Dr. Gottheil: “Why should we Jews not glory in Him? The crown of thorns on His head makes Him only the more our brother.. For to this day it is borne by His people.” Dr. Friedlander: “The Divine Son of Man,” and “it is the glory of Judaism to have produced such a being.” Dr. Kohler: “The Jew of today beholds in Jesus an inspiring ideal of matchless beauty. . . . The very sign of the Cross has lent a new meaning, a holier pathos to suffering, sickness and sin. . . . All this, modern Judaism gladly acknowledges, re claiming Jesus as one of its greatest sons.” Dr. Max Nordau: “Jesus is the soul of our soul, flesh of our flesh. Who, then, could think of excluding Him from the people of Israel? St. Peter will remain the only Jew who said of the Son of David, “I know not the man.”
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