Jacob and Pharaoh

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. Gen. 37:7 What a picture here! The aged Jacob, leaning on the strong arm of his recovered son as he passes into the presence of an Egyptian monarch who receives him not as an inferior or a dependent but with a reverential feeling that this man's dwelling place was God. This, it is certain, is not saying too much of this Pharaoh. Consider, that this patriarch by way of greeting it seems blesses him....