The brides of Joseph and Moses were the daughters of priests, they were both Gentiles, and they both were given to their husbands while rejected by their brethren. Those who compose the church belong to a priestly family (1 Peter 2:5), they are “all of one” with Christ, and they are therefore suited for His companionship. Although the church is composed of Jews and Gentiles, it is characteristically Gentile, in the sense that it is largely composed of Gentiles, even as we read, “God ... did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for His name” (Acts 15:1414Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. (Acts 15:14)), and again, “Christ in you [Gentiles], the hope of glory” (Col. 1:37). That Christ has the church while rejected by His earthly brethren needs little emphasis. In this connection, it is interesting to observe that Stephen, in Acts 7, presents Joseph and Moses as types of the rejected Christ.
These brides have also complementary features: Asenath shares with Joseph his exaltation and glory, but Zipporah has part with Moses in his place of strangership and rejection. Moreover, Asenath is united to him who is raised from the lowest to the highest place in Egypt, but Zipporah is the wife of the one who forsook Egypt with its kingdom and glory and who chose the path of suffering and affliction. When on earth, Christ refused the kingdom from Satan and from men, but He shall have it from the hand of His Father; then shall the church share His kingdom and glory.
W. C. Reid