Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 45:7

7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your live, by a great deliverance m.

That you and your Children might be sustained and preserved in this time of [illegible: 1+ letters]amine, and afterwards abundantly multiplied, as God hath promised. Or, for a g[illegible: 1+ letters]at [illegible: 1 word], or escaping, (i. e.) that you who are now but an handful, escaping this danger, may grow into a vast mul[illegible: 1+ letters]ude: The word [illegible: 1+ letters] on or escaping is here put for the persons that do escape, as it is 2 Chron. 30. 6. Isa. 10. 20. and as captivity is oft put for the Captives, as it is Numb. 21. 1. Deut. 21. 10. And so what was said in the former clause is repeated in this with an emphatical addition.

Marginal references: Heb. to put for yo[illegible: 1+ letters] a remnant.