they were afraid] Sore afraid, for the Hebrew phrase is, their heart went out of them; upon the sight of their money, when they opened their sackes in the Inne, they were afraid that there was some subtle devise to ensuare them; See Annot. on vers. 27, 28. and now they open them at home, it is said they were afraid; it is like the first feare was sudden, and short, at least that it did not last untill they came home, yet with a second sight of the money their passion might returne upon them, especially their father being taken with it, and giving reasons for it, might easily receive the passionate apprehension of his sonnes, and so they were now (father and sonnes) afraid together: or, the sonnes would not acknowledge they had opened their sackes before, and found the money in them, lest their father should have chidden them, and so they faine a feare with him, as if now they had first taken notice of the matter.