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The Prisoner and Prime Minister
Literature
Clifford, J., Daily Strength for Daily Living (1887), 57.
Cox, S., The Hebrew Twins (1894), 224.
Dawson, W. J., The Divine Challenge (1910), 233.
Dods, M., Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph (1880), 151.
Edersheim, A., The World before the Flood, 142.
Garbett, E., The Soul's Life, 125.
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There is none greater in this house than I.- Gen_39:9.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, … Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.- Gen_41:40-41.
Except by an incidental reference to it in the later confession of his brothers, we are not told either of the tears or the entreaties with which Joseph vainly sought to move his brethren, or of his journey into Egypt. We know that when following in the caravan of his new masters, he must have seen at a distance the heights of his own Hebron, where, all unsuspecting, his father awaited the return of his favourite. To that home he was never again to return. We meet him next in the slave-market. Here, as it might seem in the natural course of events, “Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites.” He would be carried into that part of Egypt which was always most connected with Palestine.