...refers to the distinction which we have just laid down; addressing himself to his brethren, he says : " As for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass as it is at this day 1." Joseph's brethren had one plan in view, and God...

...seventeen years before, and which you heard as I expounded to you the fortyfifth chapter. Here he says, " As for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive." Thus he shewed them that...

...Yet he tells them expressly, when afterwards they trembled before his superior power, " Fear not ; as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it for good." The same providence which miraculously rescued the patriarch Isaac from ihe arm that was raised to...

...means purposed. When Joseph is speaking to his brethren respecting their conduct towards him, he says, "As for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good, to save much people alive." Gen. 1,20. "The Lord repented him of the evil which he thought...

...Christianity might be seen rearing her head, and adopting the language of Joseph to his brethren, " but as for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good." From this temporary prevalence of in fidelity the truth was more effectively taught, that...

...hristian name, may appear from such postages as these: Gen. 1, 20i Joseph says to his brethren, But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass as it is this day, to save much people alite. Exod. ix, 16, it is said...

...they should be so grieved before him. " And Joseph said, Fear not ; for am I in the place of God ? But as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. Now therefore fear ye not...

...Egypt? Manifestly, by causing his brethren to send him. there. But Joseph says to them, Gen. 50. 20. "As for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good." God had a good design to accomplish through the instrumentality of their wickedness, though...

...for their evil conduct toward him, he said unto them, " Fear not; for am I in the place of God ? But as for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive." (Gen. I. 19, 20.) Thus...

...compassion over them, and " said unto them, (ver. 19,) Fear not ; for am I in the place of God ? But as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. Now therefore fear ye not...