O, for Faith to Behold Christ!
"And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found; know now, whether it be thy son's coat, or no. And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat." -Genesis 37:32, 33 [KJV] The life of the patriarch Joseph is very beautiful and interesting, as a history only; and the several incidents arising out of it are such as cannot but more or less affect every heart. But when we have gone through the whole relation, in the mere letter of the word, we are constrained to believe, that in the spiritual sense and meaning of it, almost every thing in the life of Joseph was typical of Jesus! I would not strain scripture upon any account. Neither would I to myself any thing fanciful of Jesus and His frame blessed offices; so as to see Him where He is not. Yet I cannot but think, that since in so many instances, as is universally allowed, Joseph is a lively type of Christ, the Holy Ghost, in His glorifying the Lord Jesus, was, i...