Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 45:4

4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me , I pray you: and they came near, and he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt .

Be not afraid of me, but come nearer to me with chearfulness and confidence, that you may be assured that I am he, and that we may more freely and privately discourse together so as none others may hear. It is probable that Ioseph sate in state, and that they hitherto kept a due distance from him.

(i. e.) Sold unto them that brought me into Egypt, and sold me there. See Gen. 37. 28. and 39. 1. So they sold him into Egypt occasionally and eventually.