...enemies, and great opposition. The Archers, privily and openly, sorely grieved him, and shot at him, yet his bow abode in strength ; and the arms of his hands...made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob. As to himself, he died full of days, spent in great and sore travail ; yet his eyes were not waxed...

...great love. Yes, my child, in language which is figurative, but very beautiful, he said : Joseph is a fruitful bough, Even a fruitful bough by a well, Whose branches run over the wall. The archers have surd y grieved him, And shot at him, and hated him. Bat his bow abode in strength, And the arms of...

...the head of their tribes, the patriarch Jacob thus expresseth himself, Gen.xlix. 22: " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall." This refers to the exceeding populousness of the tribes proceeding from him. Ver. 23 : "The archers...

...11. And the Lord said, &c. Isanything too hard for the Lord? — Gen. xviii. 13, 14. Jer. xxxii. 27. His hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob, &c. By the Almighty, &c. — Gen. xlix. 24, 25. I will redeem you with a stretchedout arm. — Exod....

...Then-%ated-him -t/ie-masters-of 2arrows : English Version. 20 royal dainties. 21 he giveth goodly words. 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him. * Some render, Gad, a troop, shall invade (or oppress) him, But he shall invade (or oppress) their...

...excellency of the power was not of the weapons, but of God — and that, if his bow abode in strength, the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob. It is therefore called the arrow of the Lord's deliverance ; and by which the Syrians were to be vanquished...

...Jlrcher under this figure, alludes to the words which Jacob on his death-bed addressed to Joseph. — " The Archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him,...of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighiy God of Jacob." CAPRICORN us. — This figure, with the head of a GOAT and the tail of a Pish,...

...over the wall. £3 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot "i hint, ami hated him : 24 but hi? bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Gvd of Ja rone by cob: (( from physicians to embalm his father : and (be physicians embalmed Israel....

...О my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united Í and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Ond of Jacob : [from for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged thence...

...and difficult path which he had to travel: his Egyptian glory was to be preceded by many storms. " The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him." His sorrows came not from the hands of strangers; they were his brethren, his companions, who formed...