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therefrom without the lions devouring him. And similarly our Lord was cast into the grave, and the Jews sealed it with their seals, imagining that they were sealing up the rising of the sun so that it should not shine. ye foolish, wicked, blasphemous, blind, and O weak-minded men, would ye assert that the Spirit of Life should not appear and come forth ? And the Jews were put to shame, and He went forth to illumine us who have believed upon Him. Joseph was sold by the hand of his brethren, and our Lord was sold by the hand of Judah. And Joseph where he was sold delivered his brethren from the famine, and Christ hath delivered us who believed upon Him and hath made us His heirs and His brethren. And as Joseph gave an inheritance unto his kinsfolk in the land of Gesham (Goshen), so shall [Christ] give unto His righteous ones a habitation, an everlasting inheritance. And moreover, in order that ye may know, and understand, and be certain about the resurrection of the dead, I will give you a sign, which ye shall understand by the guidance of His word. When Abraham had come unto the land of [his] inheritance he bought first of all a tomb wherein to gather together the dead bodies of and his children, and his wife, so that he and there he buried his wife Sarah and he himself was buried. For he was a prophet, and he knew that he would be raised up with his kin. And Isaac and Rebekah his wife were And it remained their possession also buried there. from the time when Jacob went down to the land of Egypt with seventy-seven souls, because of the famine and because Joseph his son [was there], until their number became six hundred thousand marching men who were equipped for war, without [reckoning] women and And Jacob died in Egypt at a good old age, children. " and he said unto Joseph his son, I adjure thee by the 220 his kinsfolk, might join them in the resurrection ;