Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-04-14
Rev. J. w. MALCOLM, Editor.
BIBLE STUDY.

been industriously Invested of their priv
ileges and honors, and then made the
offscouring of all things -Henry=This
probably was done that, if ever found,
he might not be discerned to be person
of distinction. and consequently no IN
quiry made concerning him.-C1arke=
His robe, the evidence of Jacobs tender
regard, might have reminded them that
to murder Joseph was, in effect, to muir
der their father. If it would not deprive
him Of life, it would deprive him of the
comfort of life, and fill up the rest of
his days with bitterness and Sorrow
-Bh.
Verse "a. Cast into pit-Their ha-
tired to Joseph must have had far deep
err seat-must have been produced by
dislike to his piety and other excellencies,
which made his character and conduct
constant censure upon theirs, and on ac-
count of which they had found that they
could never be at ease till they had rid
themselves of his hated presence. This
was the true solution of the mystery,
Just as it was in the case of CAIN.
r. B=The original word is sometimes
rendered cistern, term applied to hol-
low reservoirs excavated out of the solid
rock for the purpose of holding rain-wa-
ter, or to natural cavities containing
fountains, which were often walled up
with stone to prevent the water from es-
Gaping. These pits or cisterns, from
earthquakes were sometimes broken, so
that they could no longer answer the
end for which they were constructed
Bh.=Empty-So that he did not perish.
His cries for mercy they remembered
many years fterward.-Lange=On his
way to Damascus. Robinson found Khan
Jubb Jhsuf, "a kind of inn), the Khan
of Joseph's pit, so-called after well
connected with it, and which for long
time, both among Christians and Mo-
hammedans was regarded as the cistern
into which Joseph was thrown.-Schro-
der.
Verse 25. Sat doaon-Through this
apparent insensibility their inward agony
is betrayed it appears in their agitated
looking out, so that they cspy the Ish
maelites already a great distance.-L
The devil had drawn a hard hoof over
their hearts, that either they had felt no
remorse at what they had done, for the
present, or else they sought to ease them
selves of it by eating and merry making.
-7Tapp=They were now pleased to
think how they were freed from the fear
of their brothers dominion over them,
and that on the contrary they had turn
ed the wheel upon him. They made
merry over him, as the prosecutors over
the two witnesses that had tormented
them.-Henry-They take their seats as
though they had done we'll their work
Conscience is secure sin is asleep; YET
God sees l.-StGrke=A great force
put upon conscience commonly Supplies
and, for the time, deprives it of boil
sense and speech Daring sinners arr
secure ones but the consclences Of 10
seph's brethren; though asleep now
were reused long afterward. Henry
Every act is perfectly in character ant
describes forcibly the british and. dia
bolic nature of their ruthless souls
Observation-Disclosures mer
chants, they we're transporting costl
products from their country to Egypt
Gam.-trogacouth is found in Syria
the balm of Gilead was especially re
nowned, and was sold to Phenici
and Egypt: ladasiem, (myrrh), or til
fragrant rose of the cistus, is found
Arabia and Syria, as well as in Pale
interchangeable date of the transa'
ton is more than seventeen centuriC
before the christian era; and notwitl
standing its antiquity, it has all Il
genuine features of caravan crossir
the desert at the present hour Vince
This caravan Gas Robinsons descri
ton shows had crossed the Jordan
Beisan, and followed the highway tn
led from Beisan and Zerin to Raml,
and Egypt, entering the plain of Doth;
west of Genin.-De.-Egypt was the
market. This agrees with the testimol
of classic historians, as Homer al
Herodotus, who tell US that Egypt W
a store house for drugs, and seat
hysicians.-JucObuS.
Verse 26. Judah Said-"Then judi
began to use the language of hypocrit
al self-interest," says Delitzsch. Tn
however, seems to be not at all justifi
by Judah's after-history. 1t must
pre-supposed that Judah was unacquail
ed with Reubens intention. The bre
rem were so excited that Judah ale
could not have hoped to rescue Jose
from their hand, the ferocity especially
Simeon and Levi, is known to us fir
former history. Judah, therefore, COZ
think not otherwise than that Jose
must die from hunger in the pit. AS
opposition to this, therefore, and not
counteraction to Reuben's attempt
deliverence. in his proposal to be judg
He lived still, though slave. Tn