7, 8. Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, . . . but
they knew not him--This is not strange. They were full-grown
men--he was but a lad at parting. They were in their usual garb--he was
in his official robes. They never dreamt of him as governor of Egypt,
while he had been expecting them. They had but one face; he had ten
persons to judge by.
made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly--It would be
an injustice to Joseph's character to suppose that this stern manner
was prompted by any vindictive feelings--he never indulged any
resentment against others who had injured him. But he spoke in the
authoritative tone of the governor in order to elicit some
much-longed-for information respecting the state of his father's
family, as well as to bring his brethren, by their own humiliation and
distress, to a sense of the evils they had done to him.
JFB.
Outline
1 Jacob sends his ten sons to buy corn in Egypt
16 They are imprisoned by Joseph as spies
18 But are freed, on one condition that they bring Benjamin
21 Their remorse on account of Joseph
24 Simeon is kept as a pledge
25 They return home with corn, and with their money
29 Their report to Jacob
36 Jacob refuses to send Benjamin
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