
It is impossible to read this inimitable story without detecting in the  water-mark of the paper on which it is written the name Jesus. Indeed, we lose  much of the beauty and force of these early Scriptures if we fail to observe the  references to the life, character, and work of the blessed Redeemer. Notice some  of these precious analogies:-
Our Saviour's shepherd-heart (Genesis  37:2).
The love of the Father before the worlds were made (Genesis  37:3).
The dreams of empire, which are so certainly to be realized, when  we shall see Him acknowledged as King of kings and Lord of lords (Genesis  37:7).
Envied by His brethren, to whom He came, though they received Him  not (Genesis 37:11).
His alacrity to do His Father's will, and to finish  His work, in which will we too have been sanctified (Genesis 37:13).
Cast  into the pit of the grave, as a seed-corn into the ground to die, that He might  not abide alone, but bear much fruit (Genesis 37:24).
The thirty pieces  of silver for which He was betrayed (Genesis 37:28).
The indifference of  the Jewish people to their great Brother's fate (Genesis 37:25).
Rejected  of the Jew, and turning to the Gentile (Genesis 37:28).
The bitter grief  which His rejection has brought on the Jewish people (Genesis 37:35)-
It  is as though the Holy Ghost, eager to glorify the Lord, could not wait for the  slow unfolding of history, but must anticipate the story of that precious life  and death which were to make the world new again.