Verses 15-16
15, 16. He blessed Joseph “Joseph is here identified with his children, after the true patriarchal conception of the divine covenant . There is herein a threefold benediction:
God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk The God of the past, the God of the covenant .
The God which fed me all my life long unto this day The God of providence, as he has revealed himself to me as well as my fathers: (how changed from the self-reliant, self-seeking Jacob of old!)
The Angel which redeemed me from all evil The redeeming God, the Jehovah-Angel. It is the God who leads, feeds, saves.
Let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Let them be the true heirs of the three great patriarchs. And let them multiply as do the fishes, that swarm in the teeming Nile. The very imagery shows that the patriarch has come to Egypt, for now he no more sees his seed symbolized by the stars of the Asiatic firmament, nor by the sands of the Syrian sea-shore, but by the fatness of the all-fertilizing Nile.” Newhall.
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