'
ESSAY
6o
divine
was
happy
less
II.
in his translation
and
strictures
of the following verses.
The dying
had well marked,
patriarch
learnt,
and
sum and substance of the Holy Ghost had moved him to
inwardly digested, the blessings which the utter.
His poetic genius arranged them, clothed and
adorned them symbols, as to
in
such beauteous
make
figures,
and charming
those benedictions ever
memor-
He
able to the hearts and ears of the blessed ones.
up the spirit and essence of the simile which he used, at the end of Naphtali's blessing, and therefore follows
begins the benediction of his especial favourite thus: Joseph
A
is
fruitful
a
fruitful
bough,
bough beside a
Whose branches run
adTenturS^' ^^'^'
Joseph.
Thc foud
father
—
well,
over the wall.
proceeds to enumerate the cruel
whom he thought dead, but whom he thought lost, but who
adventures of that son,
who was alive again was found again. One seems ;
to perceive the long
pauses which the speaker makes between the succeeding words,
each
of
which
is
pregnant
of the
with
One seems to hear the throbbings sympathising paternal heart, which the memory
significant meaning.
F]DV \v-'b'S
ms p mo ]i
Gen.
xlix. 22.