Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 45:3
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Genesis45:3
3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; Doth my father yet live . And his brethren could not answer him: for they were troubled at his presence .
He repeats his former question, Gen. 43. 27. either because he questioned the truth of their former relation or would be further satisfied in it, it being usual with men to ask over and over again what they long to know; or because he now desired a more particular relation of his fathers condition, and how he did bear up under all his calamities.
From a sudden and deep sense of their horrid guile and their just fear of some dreadful punishment.
Marginal references: Act. 7. 13.; Or, terrified.
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