Character focus:Mary and Joseph, the earthly mother and father of Jesus. Both were rather simple people, but God chose them to be part of His eternal salvation plan. Mary was merely a (likely young) woman betrothed to Joseph, a carpenter. The couple took care of Jesus and raised Him. A...
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Branden Hurst
5. Furthermore, the phrase, "So Joseph rose from sleep, and taking mother and child by night he went away with them to Egypt, and there he stayed till Herod's death," reflects the biblical narrative where Joseph, along with Mary and baby Jesus, flees to Egypt to escape th...
Joseph received another visit from an angel and obeyed the warning, fleeing to Egypt. This was an escape from Herod’s decree to kill all the males under the age of two (In hopes of destroying the young Messiah. (Matthew 2:13-14). After Herod’s death, the Lord instructed Joseph to...
13When they had gone, an angelof the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.“Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” ...
A second thought, however, which tended to make Joseph’s brethren feel in a wretched plight was this, that they now discovered that they were in Joseph’s hands. There stood Joseph, second to none but Pharaoh in all the empire of Egypt. Legions of warriors were at his beck and command...
Joseph remained two years longer in prison, at the end of which period Pharaoh had a dream of seven lean kine devouring seven fat kine and of seven withered ears devouring seven full ears. Great importance was attached to dreams in Egypt, and Pharaoh was much troubled when his magicians prov...
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In the fifth episode of The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers discuss the mythology of love — from kāma to agape to courtly romance — and the role of the female as the giver of life and form. In this clip, Campbell traces the beginning of the idea of love, a...