66. Isaac feared the Lord, as was indeed but natural in the son of Abraham; being subject also to his father to such an extent that he would not avoid death in opposition to his father’s will. Gen. xxii. 9. Joseph also, though he dreamed that sun and moon and stars made obeisance to him, yet was subject to his father’s will with ready obedience. Gen. xxxvii. 9. So chaste was he, he would not hear even a word unless it were pure; humble was he even to doing the work of a slave, modest, even to taking flight, enduring, even to bearing imprisonment, so forgiving of wrong as even to repay it with good. Whose modesty was such, that, when seized by a woman, he preferred to leave his garment in her hands in flight, rather than to lay aside his modesty. Gen. xxxix. 12. Moses, Ex. iv. 10. also, and Jeremiah, Jer. i. 6. chosen by the Lord to declare the words of God to the people, were for avoiding, through modesty, that which through grace they could do.