Jacobs heart fainted] The conflict betwixt hope, and doubt, joy, and feare, but especially feare prevailing put Jacob into a swooning or fainting fit. he beleeved them not] Vehement passions whether of joy, as Luke 24:41. or of feare, are great impediments to faith and there was the lesse beliefe given unto them, because they had told a lye of Joseph to make Jacob beleeve that Joseph was dead; A just reward for a Lier, that when he telleth truth he should not be beleeved.