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Rh Joseph to buy corn, because that the famine was sore in all lands." (Gen. xli. 56.) True indeed is this spirituality, respecting the famine of hearing the Word of God in our Saviour's days, and is still. And are not all lands coming, or being brought, to our Divine Saviour, for to buy "the corn of heaven," (Psalm lxxviii. 24,) which Jesus alone can supply, and which He is willing to sell, "without money and without price," (Isaiah lv. 1,) "to all who hunger and thirst after righteousness?" (Matt v. 6.) And the day will come when Jesus will literally be the Desire of all nations, and all nations whom He hath made will come and worship before Him. (Psalm lxxxvi. 9.) And as the Egyptians bowed the knee before Joseph, so at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. ii. 10.)

I have remarked that one purpose God had in Joseph's exaltation was the salvation of his father's house in particular. Israel's house represented the Israelitish church or people,