"Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a
fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: {23} The archers
have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: {24} But his bow abode
in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the
mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) {25}
Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who
shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that
lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: {26} The blessings of
thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost
bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the
crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. Genesis 49:22-26
"And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the
LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the
deep that coucheth beneath, {14} And for the precious fruits brought forth by
the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, {15} And for the
chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the
lasting hills, {16} And for the precious things of the earth and fulness
thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing
come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was
separated from his brethren. {17} His glory is like the firstling of his
bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push
the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of
Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." Deuteronomy 33:13-17
"But the birthright was Joseph's."
- 1 Chron. 5:2.
F.R.A. Glover: How is England Joseph?
The prophecy concerning Joseph himself, by
Jacob, is so peculiar in its promises and terms, and it seems so exactly to fit
the condition of England, that one is driven to see England's existence and
power, as foretold in the endowments promised to Joseph; which endowments
cannot, by any stretch of fancy or accommodation of language, be extended to
suit the condition of any other of the Teutonic or Continental nations, sprung
equally from the tribes with ourselves, or any other, sprung from any other
source.
So much colour is there for this assertion,
that
"Mr. Wilson," says Dr. Moore,
"who has not advanced any direct evidence of Saxon connexion with Israel
by descent, while he has indicated a great deal in the Anglo-Saxon Character
and Customs which accords better with the notion of our Israelitish origin than
with any other explanation of our peculiarities, lays most stress upon the
circumstances that the prophecies concerning the family of Joseph are not
fulfilled, unless in the Anglo Saxons. This, however, will scarcely serve to
prove," continues the Doctor, "that the Gothic and Saxon races are
the direct descendants of Joseph, to whom were promised all the blessings of
increase and abundance. The facts and arguments, accumulated by several
writers, may well suffice, however, to convince us that an Israelitish
influence has been infused into the people from whence we sprung, and that the
Spirit of Israel's training, in war, legislature, religion, and all outward
endeavour, has been operating amongst us to qualify our population to colonize
all countries; and while preparing the ground for the highest culture,
penetrating the everlasting hills for gold and treasure, traversing seas,
building docks in every harbour, intersecting the mountains and the valleys
with roads of wrought iron, riding on fiery chariots with the speed of
tempests, sending forth their thoughts and words on lightning wings from land to
land, and declaring every where this earthly earnestness, notwithstanding that
this world is not our rest. These, however, are not the positive marks by which
the offspring of the escaped remnant" - he means the remnant of Israel -
"is to be known at last." - Moore's Lost Tribes, p. 94,
Having thus eloquently, but truthfully
withal, delivered himself concerning this wonderfully endowed and gifted
people, in illustration of the prophecy concerning those who were promised the
fulness of the riches of Heaven and Earth and Sea - things spiritual, physical,
and temporal - it seems bard to conceive what further proof be or others can
desire to satisfy them, that those of whom he so wrote must be Very-Joseph.
But should any doubt linger in the mind of
any as to the identity of England with Joseph, through lack of proof, as in
absence of some more definite mark of identification between England and
Joseph, that will pass away in the answer to the question, How is England
Ephraim?
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