Onely the land of the Priests] This proceeded not of Josephs care (for he would not be so respective of Idolatrous Priests) but of Pharaohs, and yet the lands of the Priests might the rather be kept from alienation, because Potipherah, Josephs father in law, was Priest of On; for whose sake he is supposed by some to have favoured all the Priests; but in this Indulgence though Joseph had an hand, he had no heart; but as an Officer of Pharaoh, made an order, or drew up a sentence, for reservation of the rights and revenues of the Priests, which had beene anciently allowed them by the good liking of Prince and people, throughout the whole land: the case is much alike among the reformed Christians in France, who pay their tithes to the Idolatrous Priests of the Romish Religion, because they are not left at liberty to withhold them from their hands: this (though it make not for the Popish opinion of exemption of the Clergie from the Secular power, (for which they plead by this example) yet it condemnes the irreligion of many Christians, who shew little reverence or respect, if not much uncharitablenesse, or contempt toward the Ministers of the Gospel, against whom the men of Egypt in the Day of Judgement shal rise up, and condemne them, as the men of Nineveh, against those that regarded not the preaching of our Saviour, Matthew 12:41.