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OSEPH felt the benefit of having the Lord's help. In consequence of the Lord being with him, Joseph was a prosperous man. "His master saw that the Lord was with him." How did he see this? He did not see the Lord, but he saw in Joseph's piety and virtue the evidence that he was a godly young man, and thus that God was with him. Joseph therefore found grace or favour in his master's sight, and he made him ruler over his house. Potiphar did not lose his reward, for "the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field."

Joseph was beautiful as well as good; he was a goodly person and well favoured. Beauty, which is a source of vanity and proves a snare to some, had no such effect