{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6219","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":44,"chapter_to":44,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: Then Judah said, \"Before God the sins of your servants have been discovered\"—not this one [of the cup] but the one for which we have been requited with these things. \"Therefore not only he in whose sack the cup was found but we also will become slaves to our master.\" And Joseph said, \"Far be it from\" the just Egyptian \"to do this!\" These men, because of their great virtue, do not even eat bread with Hebrews lest they become unclean by them. How then can we do what is foreign to our conduct? The justice that hinders us from sinning against one who has not sinned against us compels us to be avenged on that one who has caused us offence. \"The one in whose hand the cup was found shall remain and be a slave.\" This will be better for him than freedom, for this later servitude, which will free him from theft, will be better for him than that first freedom that enslaved him to theft.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Genesis 38:4</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f11609c4d6b0c0f1e06ece66ed7cf983d5e305292914d399c0d60b904c10037c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6219,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"955394eeeb5830853e604f6544ba305ae3acf3ab32f9ee5d0f6e76a8ddf69913","translator":null,"work":null}