{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6200","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":42,"chapter_to":42,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":24,"verse_to":24},"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>John Chrysostom</b>: See how Joseph takes every means of putting fear into them so that, on seeing Simeon's bonds, they may reveal whether they manifested any sympathy for their brother. You see, everything he does is to test their attitude out of his wish to discover if they had been like that in dealing with Benjamin. Hence Joseph also had Simeon bound in front of them to test them carefully and see if they showed any signs of affection for him. That is to say, concern for Simeon led them to hasten Benjamin's arrival, which he was anxious for, so as to gain assurance from his brother's arrival.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 64.11</i></p><p><b>Quodvultdeus</b>: Hearing people talk about his brother, Joseph longed for him and said, \"I will prove in this manner that you are not spies, if your younger brother comes along with you.\" And taking Simeon from them he had him bound before him and sent him to prison. If you want to know who is Benjamin, our younger brother, desired by our Joseph, that is, Christ, he is Paul, formerly Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin according to his testimony, who asserts to be the least among the apostles. In Simeon we can recognize Peter bound by the threefold chain of denial, that Peter whom fear has bound and love has untied.<br/><i>— BOOK OF PROMISES AND PREDICTIONS OF GOD 1.30.42</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: RELUCTANCE. — Again he approached them and told them . The text does not add what he told them. Therefore, it is understood that he would tell them what he had said to them before. [<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 140 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c85f9022af87300400b6660ee35f05bcc1b7ab60f5d7209ac70abb0aec36aa5d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6200,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2ccc7ac8e1d369d4b12cd51a67c07f7e5d1d042804b3796c2df42a091d1014df","translator":null,"work":null}