5 February
Behold, I die — but you must live!
Genesis 48:21
‘And Israel (or Jacob) said to Joseph: “Behold, I die! But God shall be with you, and bring you back again to the land of your fathers!”‘Genesis 48:21.
Calvin commented: “‘And Israel said to Joseph: “Behold, I die!”‘Jacob repeated what he had said. And truly, all his sons — and especially Joseph and his sons — required something more than one simple confirmation. In order that …
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Dr Francis Nigel Lee was born in 1934 in the Westmorland County of Cumbria (in Great Britain). He was the great-grandson of a fiery preacher whose family disintegrated when he backslid. Though Dr Lee’s father was an Atheist, he married a Roman Catholic, who raised her son in that faith.
At the onset of the Second World War, Dr Lee’s father was appointed by the Royal Navy as Chief Radar Officer (South Atlantic). So the family then moved to South Africa. There, Dr Lee became a Calvinist, had the great joy of leading both of his parents to Christ and became Minister of God’s Word and Sacraments in the Reformed Church of Natal.
