Verse 15
15. Commended her before Pharaoh The result is as Abram anticipated . He sins to help Providence, and Providence abandons him . This was also the sin of Jacob in stealing Esau’s blessing, and is no uncommon sin in God’s Church to-day .
Pharaoh This is the same as the PI-Ra and PHRAH of the hieroglyphics, meaning “The Sun,” and applied as a title to the Egyptian kings . P-RE is written as a hieroglyphic symbol over the titles of the Egyptian kings . In the monuments the sun is treated as the visible representation of the generative principle of nature, and sun worship may have been a primitive idolatry brought into Egypt from the East . The colossal Theban statues, representing kings as brothers of the gods, show how they assumed divine dignities, and furnish a comment on the name Pharaoh .
Taken into Pharaoh’s house An Egyptian harem . Herodotus mentions that the Egyptians had but one wife; but Diodorus says that this restriction was confined to the priests, while other men took as many wives as they pleased . Polygamy seems to have been allowed, while monogamy was deemed more reputable . Wilkinson states that the monuments show evidence that the kings had many foreign wives or concubines, captives taken in war .
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