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From:
Christian Truth: Volume 20
By:
Edward B. Dennett
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Fruitful Bough by a Well, A
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Christian Treasury: Volume 7
Fruitful Bough by a Well, A
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Christian Truth: Volume 21
Fruitful Bough by a Well, A
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Young Christian: Volume 37, 1947
Jotting. Gen. 49:22
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Christian Friend: Volume 11
Genesis 49:22 • 1 min. read • grade level: 8
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Joseph is a well-known type of Christ; but it is not every reader of the Bible who delights to trace out the application and fulfillment of the type. Take, for example,
John 4:6
6
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. (John 4:6)
. Why is it mentioned, "Now Jacob's well was there"? Surely to arrest our attention in some special way, and
Genesis 49:22
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Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: (Genesis 49:22)
discovers the secret. "Joseph," we read, "is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a
well;
whose branches run over the wall." In this wearied Man, therefore, who in that noontide heat sat by the well of Sychar, we see the true Joseph; and even while we gaze upon Him we behold His branches running over the wall of Judaism, and reaching with their goodly fruit this poor woman of Samaria. And if not actually, yet morally (for this characterizes this gospel), the archers had sorely grieved Him, and shot at Him, and hated Him; but His bow abode in strength (vv. 23, 24), as is shown by the deliverance He wrought that day for this poor captive of Satan.
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