{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6214","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":43,"chapter_to":43,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":33,"verse_to":33},"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>: Joseph began to make his brothers sit down as if around his [divining] cup; the elder according to his status as elder and the youngest according to his youth. It is amazing that his brothers did not recognize him: not by the money in their provisions when they went home the first time, not when Joseph had Simeon bound, not when he asked about his old father when they brought Benjamin back, not when they were accused of cheating, not from the fact that he made them stay in his house and blessed Benjamin, not even from the fact that he knew the names of all of them. This was all the more [amazing] since even his appearance was so similar. Even if his majesty had deluded them, his dreams should have jarred their memory. Although they did not recognize Joseph because of his majesty, his rank and his angry tongue, it was nevertheless because of the Lord that he remained hidden from them until his dreams should be fulfilled in them who had sold him in order to render them false.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Genesis 37:7</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"272a878a0a6e8d490b943c9437d755813d54c08736e92141327e9c02cce4f039","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6214,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2173ab32a51e5569391895dacfacfdd37718001ca2ee697d7160de5fb0cd161b","translator":null,"work":null}