Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 45:5

5 Now therefore be not grieved , nor angry with your selves , that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life .

To wit, immoderately, and for the injury which you did to me, or for the danger which you have brought upon your selves. Otherwise he doth not disswade them from a godly sorrow for their offence against God, for the procurement of which he designed and used that strange and rough carriage towards them.

Neither excessively torment your selves with the remembrance of the fact, neither break forth into contentions and wrath, and upbraidings of one another.

God by his wise, powerful, and gracious Providence overruled your evil intentions to an happy end.

Not onely your lives, for the expression is here indefinite and general, but the lives of all the people in this and the neighbouring Countries. Which though it doth not lessen your sin, yet ought to qualifie your sorrow.

Marginal references: Heb. neither [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] be anger it [illegible: 1 word] eyes.; Chap. 50. 20. Psal. 105. 16, 17.