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 tation, some specific truth, doctrine, faith, love, or worship, existing therein; and the whole together, all the doctrines and truths thereof in fulness and perfection. Joseph and Benjamin were the two youngest sons by Rachel. Of Jacob the father, whose name was changed to Israel (Gen. xxxii. 28), it is said that "he loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours." If then, as is certainly a fact, all the sons of Israel represent the church in reference to doctrine and life, and each somewhat in particular, it evidently appears, that Joseph stands the highest in representation. He was loved more than all the rest, because he was the son of his father's old age. Advanced age is in Scripture the true emblem of superior wisdom, and the son of old age is the truth that thence comes forth. Joseph's dreams, and their interpretation, all of which came to pass, shew foresight and providence; for although his brethren treacherously sold him, and imposed upon their father, by pretending to find his coat, which they had marked with blood, to make him think Joseph had been devoured by wild beasts—yet he became as a king in Egypt, and to his brethren he was their bread-giver and preserver in famine. The living Joseph represented the Lord Jesus, as the Truth or the Word made flesh, for the preservation and salvation of the people; for He, though denied, sold, and rejected by the Jews, "came to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine." (Psalm xxxiii. 19.) As the living Joseph is the Lord—the living truth, foreseeing the future wants of men, and providing for, and preserving all; so the coat of many colours, being the outwatd garment of Joseph, is the