His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
We have here the settling of a good correspondence between Joseph and his brethren, now that their father was dead. Joseph was at court, in the royal city; his brethren were in Goshen, remote in the country; yet the keeping up of a good understanding, and a good affection, between them, would be both his honour and their interest.
Commenting on Genesis 50:15-21
And Joseph said unto them, fear not,.... That any hurt would be done by him to them, or that he would use them ill for their treatment of him: for am I in the place of God? to receive such homage from you, that you should be my servants, as Saadiah Gaon gives the sense; or rather to take vengeance for injury done, which belongs...
Gen 50:15-21 After their father’s death, Joseph’s brethren were filled with alarm, and said, “If Joseph now should punish us and requite all the evil that we have done to him,” sc., what would become of us! The sentence contains an aposiopesis, like Psa 27:13; and לוּ with the imperfect presupposes a condition, being used “in cases which are not desired, and for the present...
Commenting on Genesis 50:15-21