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them all in boldness, wisdom, eloquence, and especially tenderness for their father and family.
3. Judah's faithful adherence to Benjamin, now in his distress, was recompensed long after by the constant adherence of the tribe of Benjamin to the tribe of Judah, when all the other ten tribes deserted it.
4. How fitly does the apostle, when he is discoursing of the mediation of Christ, observe, that our Lord sprang out of Judah (Heb 7:14); for, like his father Judah, he not only made intercession for the transgressors, but he became a surety for them, as it follows there (Ge 44:22), testifying therein a very tender concern both for his father and for his brethren.
Genesis -45
Joseph Makes Himself Known to His Brethren
1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by
him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
Judah and his brethren were waiting for an answer, and could not but be amazed to discover, instead of the gravity of a judge, the natural affection of a father or brother.
Joseph ordered all his attendants to withdraw, Ge 45:1 The private conversations of friends are the most free. When Joseph would put on love he puts off state, and it was not fit his servants should be witnesses of this. Thus Christ graciously manifests himself and his loving-kindness to his people, out of the sight and hearing of the world.
2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh
heard.
Tears were the preface or introduction to his discourse, Ge 45:2. He had dammed up this stream a great while, and with