John Chrysostom : "He gave everybody rations individually," the text says. What is meant by "everybody individually"? Enough for everyone. You see, it is customary with Scripture to refer to every person sometimes as a soul and sometimes as a body. As it said previously, "Jacob's company traveling to Egypt numbered seventy-five souls" so as to describe seventy-five men and women, so here too "everybody individually," that is, each person. Even though the whole of Egypt and Canaan was laid waste with famine, these people were comfortable through having a supply of grain flowing as if from a spring. — HOMILIES ON Genesis 65.11 Augustine of Hippo : JACOB DOES NOT ADORE JOSEPH. — And Joseph reaped wheat for his father. His father, however, did not worship him when he saw him, or when he received the wheat from him. How are we going to think that Joseph's dream was fulfilled now and we should not believe that there is a prophecy of something greater here? [ — QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 157 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)