Genesis 42:8
And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et tamen fratres ipse cognoscens, non est cognitus ab eis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπέγνω δὲ Ἰωσὴφ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ, αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν αὐτόν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּכֵּ֥ר יוֹסֵ֖ף אֶת אֶחָ֑יו וְהֵ֖ם לֹ֥א הִכִּרֻֽהוּ
Haydock's commentary
By them. Years and change of situation, had made such an alteration in him. God was pleased that Jacob should remain so long ignorant of his son's fate, that, by sorrow, he might do penance, and purify himself from every stain; and that he might not attempt to redeem Joseph, whose slavery was to be the source of so much good to his family. (Menochius)
Joseph did not make himself known at first; in order to bring his brethren to a true sense of their duty, that they might obtain pardon for their sin. Thus pastors must sometimes treat their penitents with a degree of severity. (St. Gregory, hom. 22, Ezec.; St. Augustine, ser. 82, de Tem.) (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.