COuld not refraine] That is, from teares.
goe out from me] Not that he was ashamed of his brethren, (for he did owne both them, and his father, as is plainly shewed afterward) but that he would cover his brethrens fault, which he did it seemes not onely from the Egyptians, but from his father also; for otherwise, it is probably conceived that if Jacob had knowne it, he would have made an Item upon it among his farewell speeches concerning his sonnes, as he did of the fact of Simeon and Levi, Chap. 49. Besides, it was not suitable to the person of a man in place so great, and reputed so wise to weepe before others, according to his naturall loudnesse, which was very great.