unto him, My brethren] He was not ashamed of his kindred, though they were of mean condition in the opinion of the Egyptians: See Chap. 47. 7. In this Joseph was a Type of our Saviours humilitie, who though he were Lord, not of Egypt, but of all Lands, and of heaven as well as of earth; was not ashamed to call the meanest of the godly, brethren, Hebrews 2:11.