The righteous Joseph, charged with the sin of which his accuser was guilty, is treated as a malefactor by the Gentile authority—his feet put in the stocks, and the iron entering into his soul; he is delivered to the Gentiles, and by them mystically put to death. There he is the interpreter of restoring blessing and fatal judgment; before there was the counsel of the Lord to Messiah's natural Jewish and supreme advancement, and exaltation in principle—here rejection and death comes in, but with it, the Lord's mind in saving and condemning the guilty according to His true counsels.