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JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.
well as obedience. But love and faith work out their purposes by obedience, and can complete no work without it. To speak of the subject as symbolized in the present history; there must be a Benjamin as well as a Joseph; and although Joseph is the moving and directing cause, Benjamin is the acting medium. Obedience is the younger brother of love and faith. And we should remember the words of Joseph to his brethren—"Ye shall not see my face except your younger brother be with you." (Gen. xliii. 3.)
