Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Genesis 37:23
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Genesis37:23
23. they stripped Joseph out of his coat ... of many colors--Imagine him advancing in all the unsuspecting openness of brotherly affection. How astonished and terrified must he have been at the cold reception, the ferocious aspect, the rough usage of his unnatural assailants! A vivid picture of his state of agony and despair was afterwards drawn by themselves (compare Ge 42:21).
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