{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6199","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":42,"chapter_to":42,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":23,"verse_to":23},"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: ON THIS PASSAGE: THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT JOSEPH HEARD THEM, FOR THERE WAS OF THEM AN INTERPRETER. —What do the words of the Scripture mean: They did not know that Joseph understood them, because there was an interpreter between them ? The words refer to the repentant conversation of the children of Israel concerning their brother Joseph, in the sense that they had wronged him, and that God punished them for it, for they saw that they were in danger. This text must be interpreted in the sense that the brothers thought that Joseph did not understand them, because they saw the interpreter who stood between them. And they told him nothing of what they were talking about, believing that the interpreter was there precisely because Joseph ignored his tongue. They thought that the interpreter did not bother to say to the one who had put him there, the things that they did not say to him, but they commented to each other. [<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 139 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"74c86ee5110a42e9e8270afb0ee30e7e6558c0654e0c2532d7e757eebe52e32c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6199,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"4c0c4f2e43966d71bd117ba469f0416865a89cf5762890dd07b1df8a21719172","translator":null,"work":null}