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And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 1, 2.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Then</span> (literally, and) <span class="cmt_word">Joseph could not refrain himself</span> (<span class="accented">i.e.</span> keep himself from giving way to the impulses of love) <span class="cmt_word">before all them that stood by him</span> (<span class="accented">i.e.</span> the Egyptian officials of his household); and he cried (or made proclamation, issued an instruction), <span class="cmt_word">Cause every man to go out from me</span>. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. It was true delicacy on the part of Joseph which prompted the discovery of himself to his brethren in private; not simply because he did not wish to pain his brethren by a public reference to their past wickedness, <span class="accented">ne facinus illud detestabile multis testibus innoteseat</span> (Calvin), but because the unrestrained outburst of emotion <span class="accented">erga fratres et parentem non posset ferre alienorum praesentiam et aspectum</span> (Luther). <span class="cmt_word">And he wept aloud</span> (literally, <span class="accented">and he gave forth</span>, or uttered, <span class="accented">his voice in weeping</span>)<span class="accented">: <span class="cmt_word"></span>and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard</span>. The meaning is that the Egyptian officials of Joseph's house, who were standing outside, heard, and reported it to the house of Pharaoh (Keil, Murphy). It is not necessary to suppose that Joseph's residence was so close to the palace that his voice was heard by the inmates (Lunge). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-2.htm">Genesis 45:2</a></div><div class="verse">And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-3.htm">Genesis 45:3</a></div><div class="verse">And Joseph said unto his brethren, I <i>am</i> Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 3.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph.</span> The effect of this announcement can be better imagined than described. Hitherto he had been known to his brethren as Zaphnath-paaneah. Now the voice and the appearance of their long-lost brother would rush upon their minds at the first sound of the familiar name, and fill them with apprehension. Probably Joseph's discernment of this in their countenances was the reason why he asked so abruptly after Jacob. <span class="cmt_word">Doth my father yet live</span>? It is not now "the old man of whom ye spake" (<a href="/genesis/43-27.htm">Genesis 43:27</a>) for whom Joseph inquires, but his own beloved and revered parent - "my father." "Before it was a question of courtesy, but now of love" (Alford). <span class="cmt_word">And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled</span> (or cast into a trepidation, hence terrified) <span class="cmt_word">at his presence</span> - <span class="accented">literally, before his face</span>. Not only did his present greatness overawe them, but the recollection of their former crimes against him filled them with alarm. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-4.htm">Genesis 45:4</a></div><div class="verse">And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I <i>am</i> Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 4-13.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you.</span> It is probable they had instinctively shrunk from his presence on learning the astounding fact that he was Joseph, but felt reassured by the kindly tone of Joseph's words. <span class="cmt_word">And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt</span>. It was impossible to evade allusion to their early wickedness, and this Joseph does in a spirit not of angry upbraiding, but of elevated piety and tender charity. <span class="cmt_word">Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves</span> (literally, <span class="accented">let it not burn in your eyes</span>, as in <a href="/genesis/31-35.htm">Genesis 31:35</a>), <span class="cmt_word">that ye sold me hither</span> (their self-recriminations and heart upbraidings for their former wickedness Joseph in all probability saw depicted in their faces): <span class="cmt_word">for God</span> (Elohim) <span class="cmt_word">did send me before you to preserve life</span> (literally, <span class="accented">for the preservation of life</span>). <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>For these two years hath the famine been in the land</span> (literally, <span class="accented">in the midst of the land</span>)<span class="accented">: <span class="cmt_word"></span>and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earning nor harvest</span> - literally, <span class="accented">neither ploughing nor reaping</span>, the term ploughing, or earing, <span class="accented">charish</span> (cf. <span class="greek">ἄροσις</span>, <span class="accented">aratio</span>, Anglo-Saxon, origin), being derived from a root signifying to cut. <span class="cmt_word">And God</span> (Elohim, the use of which here and in Ver. 5 instead of Jehovah is sufficiently explained by remembering that Joseph simply desires to point out the overruling providence of God in his early transportation to Egypt) <span class="cmt_word">sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth</span> (literally, <span class="accented">to keep for you a remnant on the earth, i.e. to</span> preserve the family from extinction through the famine), <span class="cmt_word">and to save your lives by a great deliverance</span> - literally, <span class="accented">to preserve life to you to a great deliverance, i.e.</span> by a providential rescue (Rosenmüller, Kalisch, Murphy, 'Speaker's Commentary'), which is better than to a great nation or posterity, <span class="hebrew">פְלֵיטָה</span> being understood, as in <a href="/2_samuel/15-14.htm">2 Samuel 15:14</a>; <a href="/2_kings/19-30.htm">2 Kings 19:30, 31</a>, to mean a remnant escaped from slaughter (Bohlen), an interpretation which Rosenmüller thinks admissible, but Kalisch disputes. <span class="cmt_word">So now</span> (literally, and now) <span class="cmt_word">it was not you that sent me hither, but God</span> - literally, <span class="accented">for the Elohim</span> (sent me). Joseph's brethren sent him to be a slave; God sent him to be a savior (Hughes). <span class="cmt_word">And he hath made me a father to Pharaoh</span>, - <span class="accented">i.e.</span> a wise and confidential friend and counselor (Keil, Kalisch, 'Speaker's Commentary;' cf. 1 Macc. 11:32). Murphy explains the term as signifying "a second author of life," with obvious reference to the interpretation of his dreams and the measures adopted to provide against the famine - <span class="cmt_word">and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land Egypt</span> (vide <a href="/genesis/41-40.htm">Genesis 41:40, 41</a>). <span class="cmt_word">Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God</span> (Elohim) <span class="cmt_word">hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen.</span> Goshen, <span class="greek">Γεσὲμ Αραβίας</span> (LXX.), was a region on the east of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, extending as far as the wilderness of Arabia, a land of pastures (<a href="/genesis/46-34.htm">Genesis 46:34</a>), exceedingly fertile (<a href="/genesis/47-6.htm">Genesis 47:6</a>), styled also the land of Rameses (<a href="/genesis/47-11.htm">Genesis 47:11</a>), and including the cities Pithon and Rameses (<a href="/exodus/1-11.htm">Exodus 1:11</a>), and probably also <span class="accented">On</span>, or Heliopolis (Josephus, 'Ant.,' 2:07, 6; Hengstenberg's 'Egypt and the Books of Moses,' p. 42; Gesenius, 'Lexicon,' p. 183). <span class="cmt_word">And thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: and there will I nourish thee</span> (the verb is the Pilpel of <span class="hebrew">כּול</span>, to hold up, hence to sustain); <span class="cmt_word">for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty</span> - liter-<span class="accented">ally, be robbed</span>, from <span class="hebrew">יָרַשׁ</span>, to take possession (Keil), or fall into slavery, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> through poverty (Knobel, Lange). <span class="cmt_word">And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. And ye shall tell my father of</span> (literally, <span class="accented">ye shall relate to my father</span>) <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>all my glory</span> (cf. <a href="/genesis/31-1.htm">Genesis 31:1</a>) <span class="cmt_word">in Egypt, and of all</span> (literally, ail) <span class="cmt_word">that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.</span> Calvin thinks that Joseph would not have made such liberal promises to his brethren without having previously obtained Pharaoh's consent, <span class="accented">nisi regis permissu</span>; but this does not appear from the narrative. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-5.htm">Genesis 45:5</a></div><div class="verse">Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-6.htm">Genesis 45:6</a></div><div class="verse">For these two years <i>hath</i> the famine <i>been</i> in the land: and yet <i>there are</i> five years, in the which <i>there shall</i> neither <i>be</i> earing nor harvest.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-7.htm">Genesis 45:7</a></div><div class="verse">And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-8.htm">Genesis 45:8</a></div><div class="verse">So now <i>it was</i> not you <i>that</i> sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-9.htm">Genesis 45:9</a></div><div class="verse">Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-10.htm">Genesis 45:10</a></div><div class="verse">And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-11.htm">Genesis 45:11</a></div><div class="verse">And there will I nourish thee; for yet <i>there are</i> five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-12.htm">Genesis 45:12</a></div><div class="verse">And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that <i>it is</i> my mouth that speaketh unto you.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-13.htm">Genesis 45:13</a></div><div class="verse">And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-14.htm">Genesis 45:14</a></div><div class="verse">And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 14, 15.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And he</span> (<span class="accented">i.e.</span> Joseph) <span class="cmt_word">fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck</span>. "Benjamin is the central point whence leads out the way to reconciliation" (Langs). "Here brotherly affection is drawn out by affection, tear answering tear" (Hughes; cf. <a href="/genesis/33-4.htm">Genesis 33:4</a>). <span class="cmt_word">Moreover he kissed all his brethren</span>, - "the seal of recognition, of reconciliation, and of salutation" (Lange) - <span class="cmt_word">and wept upon them.</span> It has been thought that Benjamin stood when Joseph embraced him, and that the two wept upon each other's neck, but that the brethren bowed themselves at Joseph's feet, causing the expression to be, "and he wept upon them" (Lange). <span class="cmt_word">And after that his brethren talked with him</span> - feeling themselves reassured by such demonstrations of affection. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> CHAPTER 45:16-28 </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-15.htm">Genesis 45:15</a></div><div class="verse">Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-16.htm">Genesis 45:16</a></div><div class="verse">And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 16.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And the fame thereof</span> - literally, <span class="accented">the voice</span>, hence rumor (cf. <a href="/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9</a>) - <span class="cmt_word">was heard in Pharaoh's house</span> (having been brought thither doubtless by some of the Court officials), <span class="cmt_word">saying, Joseph's brethren</span> - it is probable that they would style him Zaphnath-paaneah (cf. <a href="/genesis/41-45.htm">Genesis 41:45</a>) <span class="cmt_word">are come</span> (<span class="accented">i.e.</span> are arrived in Egypt): <span class="cmt_word">and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants</span> - literally, <span class="accented">it was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants</span> (cf. <a href="/genesis/41-37.htm">Genesis 41:37</a>). The LXX. render <span class="greek">ἐχάρη δὲ Φαραὼ</span>; the Vulgate, <span class="accented">gavisus est Pharao, i.e.</span> <span class="cmt_word">Pharaoh was glad.</span> </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-17.htm">Genesis 45:17</a></div><div class="verse">And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 17, 18.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; and take your father and your households, and come unto me</span>. This may have been an independent invitation given by the Egyptian king to Joseph's relatives; but it is more than likely that Joseph had already told him of the proposal he had made to his brethren, and that he here receives a royal confirmation of the same). <span class="cmt_word">And I will give you the good of the land of Egypt,</span> - <span class="accented">i.e.</span> the best part of the land, viz., Goshen (Rosenmüller, Lange, and others); though the phrase is probably synonymous with that which follows - <span class="cmt_word">and ye shall eat the fat of the land.</span> The fat of the land meant either the richest and most fertile portion of it (Lunge, Kalisch), or the best and choicest of its productions (Gesenius, Keil). Cf. <a href="/deuteronomy/32-14.htm">Deuteronomy 32:14</a>; <a href="/psalms/147-14.htm">Psalm 147:14</a>. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-18.htm">Genesis 45:18</a></div><div class="verse">And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-19.htm">Genesis 45:19</a></div><div class="verse">Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 19, 20.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Now thou art commanded, this do ye</span>; - an apostrophe to Joseph, Pharaoh manifestly regarding the cause of Joseph and his brethren as one (Rosenmüller, Keil, Lange, and others) - <span class="cmt_word">take you wagons out of the land of Egypt</span> - the carriages here referred to (<span class="hebrew">עַגָּלות</span>, from <span class="hebrew">עָגַּל</span> to roll) were small two-wheeled vehicles suitable for a fiat country like Egypt, or for traversing roadless deserts. They were usually drawn by cattle, and employed for carrying agricultural produce. Herodotus mentions a four-wheeled car which was used for transporting the shrine and image of a deity (2:63; <span class="accented">vide</span> Rawlinson's edition, and note by Sir G. Wilkinson) <span class="cmt_word">for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.</span> Pharaoh meant them to understand that they had not only Joseph's invitation, but his (Pharaoh's) commandment, to encourage them to undertake so serious a project as the removal of their households to Egypt. <span class="cmt_word">Also regard not your stuff</span> - literally, <span class="accented">and your eyes shall not</span> (<span class="accented">i.e.</span> let them not) <span class="accented">grieve for your utensils</span> (<span class="accented">i.e.</span> articles of domestic furniture), <span class="accented">although you should require to leave them behind</span> (LXX., Rosenmüller, Keil, Kalisch, Lange, et <span class="accented">alii</span>). The rendering of the Vulgate, nee <span class="accented">dimittatis quicquid de supellectili vestra</span>, conveys a meaning exactly the opposite of the true one, which is thus correctly expressed by Dathius: <span class="accented">Nec aegre ferrent jacturam supellectilis suet</span>. <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>For the good of all the land of Egypt is yours</span> - literally, <span class="accented">to you it</span> (<span class="accented">sc</span>. shall belong). </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-20.htm">Genesis 45:20</a></div><div class="verse">Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt <i>is</i> yours.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-21.htm">Genesis 45:21</a></div><div class="verse">And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 21.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And the children</span> (better, sons) <span class="cmt_word">of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment</span> (literally, <span class="accented">the mouth</span>) <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.</span> </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-22.htm">Genesis 45:22</a></div><div class="verse">To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred <i>pieces</i> of silver, and five changes of raiment.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 22.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment</span>; - literally, <span class="accented">alterations of garments, i.e.</span> changes or suits of dress (<a href="/judges/14-12.htm">Judges 14:12, 13</a>; <a href="/2_kings/5-5.htm">2 Kings 5:5</a>); probably dress clothes for special occasions (Keil, Lange, Murphy); <span class="greek">δισσὰς στολὰς</span> (LXX.); <span class="accented">binas stolas</span> (Vulgate) - but (literally, and) to Benjamin he gave - not to make amends for having given him a fright (Lange), but as a special token of fraternal affection (Murphy) - three hundred pieces of silver,-literally, <span class="accented">three hundred of silver</span> (cf. Genesis 43:44) - and five changes of raiment - which renders it probable that the brothers only received two. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-23.htm">Genesis 45:23</a></div><div class="verse">And to his father he sent after this <i>manner</i>; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 23.</span> - And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses (<span class="accented">vide</span> <a href="/genesis/12-16.htm">Genesis 12:16</a>) laden with (literally, <span class="accented">carrying</span>) the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with (or carrying) corn and bread and meat - probably prepared meats, some sort of delicacy (Clarke) - for his father by the way. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-24.htm">Genesis 45:24</a></div><div class="verse">So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 24.</span> - So (literally, and) he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. The verb <span class="hebrew">רָגַן</span> signifies to be moved or disturbed with any violent emotion, but in particular with anger (<a href="/proverbs/29-9.htm">Proverbs 29:9</a>; <a href="/isaiah/28-21.htm">Isaiah 28:21</a>; cf. Sanser. <span class="accented">rag</span>, to move oneself, Gr. <span class="greek">ὀργή</span>, anger, Lat. <span class="accented">frango</span>, Gerregen), and is here generally understood as an admonition against quarrelling (LXX., <span class="greek">μὴ οργιζεσθε</span>; Vulgate, <span class="accented">ne</span> <span class="accented">irascimini</span>) (Calvin, Dathius, Rosenmüller, Keil, Mur phy, Lange, Alford, <span class="accented">et alii</span>), although by others (Tuch, Baumgarten, Michaelis, Gesenius, Kalisch) it is regarded as a dissuasive against fear of any future plot on the part of Joseph. </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-25.htm">Genesis 45:25</a></div><div class="verse">And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,</div><div class="comm"><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 25-28.</span> - And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, and told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he (literally, <span class="accented">and that he</span>; an emphatic assurance which Keil, following Ewald, renders by" yea," and Kalisch by "indeed") is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's (literally, <span class="accented">his, i.e.</span> Jacob's) heart fainted (literally, <span class="accented">A few chill</span>, the primary idea of the root being that of rigidity through coldness; cf. <span class="greek">πηγνύω</span>, to be rigid, and <span class="accented">pigeo, rigeo, frigeo</span>, to be chill. The sense is that Jacob s heart seemed to stop with amazement at the tidings which his sons brought), for he believed them not. This was scarcely a case of believing not for joy (Bush), but rather of incredulity arising from suspicion, both of the messengers and their message, which was only removed by further explanation, and in particular by the sight of Joseph's splendid presents and commodious carriages. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: - <span class="accented">i.e.</span> about Joseph's invitation and promise (vers. 9-11) - and when he saw the wagons - probably royal vehicles (Wordsworth) - which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived (literally, <span class="accented">lived</span>; it having been previously numb and cold, as if dead): and Israel said, - the change of name here is significant. The sublime theocratic designation, which had dropped into obscurity during the period of the old man's sorrow for his lost son, revives with the resuscitation of his dead hope (cf. <a href="/genesis/43-6.htm">Genesis 43:6</a>) - It is enough (one word, as if expressing his complacent satisfaction); Joseph my son is yet alive (this is the one thought that fills his aged heart): I will go down - "The old man is young again in spirit; he is for going immediately; he could leap; yes, fly" (Lange) - and see him (a sight of Joseph would be ample compensation for all the years of sorrow he had passed through) before I die. He would then be ready to be gathered to his fathers. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> </div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-26.htm">Genesis 45:26</a></div><div class="verse">And told him, saying, Joseph <i>is</i> yet alive, and he <i>is</i> governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-27.htm">Genesis 45:27</a></div><div class="verse">And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/45-28.htm">Genesis 45:28</a></div><div class="verse">And Israel said, <i>It is</i> enough; Joseph my son <i>is</i> yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.</div><div class="comm"></div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Pulpit Commentary, Electronic Database. 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