. The Bible and its . gend is full oftales of Joseph, adding a thousand details to the briefbut vigorous outline given in the Bible. In charac-ter also Joseph stands foremost, bei:ig both the heroand the -saint. We find in him neither the fiercenessof Abraham, the self-indulgence of Isaac, nor theguile of Jacob; and when in later life he had risento his highest, he remained as pure and noble as inhis days of trial. Of his later destiny he could, however, have noknowledge in the first moment of the overthrow of his3^outhful fortunes. Despite the surly grumblings ofhis brothers, he had v
. The Bible and its . gend is full oftales of Joseph, adding a thousand details to the briefbut vigorous outline given in the Bible. In charac-ter also Joseph stands foremost, bei:ig both the heroand the -saint. We find in him neither the fiercenessof Abraham, the self-indulgence of Isaac, nor theguile of Jacob; and when in later life he had risento his highest, he remained as pure and noble as inhis days of trial. Of his later destiny he could, however, have noknowledge in the first moment of the overthrow of his3^outhful fortunes. Despite the surly grumblings ofhis brothers, he had ventured confidently among themin far off Dothan. Then the sudden disaster over-whelmed him. He was seized, cast into the deep pitto die, and, after all hope seemed gone, was upraisedfrom the pit only to be heartlessly sold into Dothan he was carried southward not so veryfar perhaps from the home where his father awaitedhim, and so onward into Egypt. How bewildered,how tragic, must have been his youthful thoughts!. m i!i ^nt. Slontpf) ^olb to ^otipliar AFTER THE PAINTING BY A. FALDI. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain ofthe guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands ofthe Ishmaelites.—Gen., 39, 1. THE PERIOD when Joseph was sold intoEgypt must have been somewhere about four-teen hundred years before Christ. At thattime Egypt was under the dominion of foreigners,the race of Hyksos or shepherd kings. These hadcome from Asia, probably passing through Palestinebefore Abraham, and had conquered Egy^^t. Hencethis was an opportune time for a foreigner, especial-ly an educated, high-bred, Asiatic shepherd such asJoseph, to rise to prominence under these foreignPharaohs. At first Joseph was not thrown into directcontact with the dominant race. His first masterPotiphar, as we are expressly told, was a native Egyp-tian, though one who had been taken into service bythe conquerors and held very high rank among them. In the home of Potiphar, Joseph probably dweltfor
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