to deliver him] Reuben his halfe brother the eldest sonne of Jacob by Leah perswades them not to slay him, but to cast him into some dry pit; whence his meaning was to fetch him out, and to returne him safe unto his father; he made no scruple to pollute his fathers bed with incest, Genesis 35:22. ye he makes a conscience of being defiled with his brothers blood: and it may be he is the more desirous to redeeme the guilt of his lust with a gratefull office to his father, and to regaine his love. How corrupt is this Church in the Patriarch Jacobs family, when most of his sonnes are tainted with the hainous sinnes of incest, or murder in intent, and indeavour, though not in deed? for they were innocent in fact, but against their wils.