which resemble some in the history of our Lord, are not in the same order. We find even, on comparing prophecy with its fulfilment, that events do not always occur in the order in which they are predicted. Thus, in the twenty-second Psalm, those remarkable circumstances that occurred at the Lord's crucifixion are distinctly mentioned, but their order is reversed. The first words of that psalm are the last which the Lord uttered immediately before He gave up the ghost—"My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" Then comes (v. 7, 8) the cruel mockery of the Jews at the Saviour in His agony on the cross—"They shake the head, saying, He trusted in God, that He would deliver Him; let Him deliver Him, seeing that He delighteth in Him." And, lastly, we have the acts of the soldiers, which we may suppose the first of the three—"They parted my garments among them, and cast lots on my vesture." Although, therefore, the incidents in Joseph's history, that resemble some in the history of our Lord, are in a different order, you must not suppose that they are less truly prophetical.
