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ANNOTATIONS.
CHAP. XLIII.

 

Moderation to be vsed in feasting.34. Inebriated.) Not that they did eate or drinke too much, or fel into excesse, but competently. As the earth is said to be inebriated with raine (Psal. 64.) being sufficiently watered, and so made fruitful, not drowned, nor ouerflowed, for so it is vnfruitful. S. Hierome. Tradit. Heb. S. Aug. q. 144. super Gen.

 

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CHAP. XLIIII.

 

Ioseph causeth their sackes to be filled with corne, and their money to be put againe therin, and in Beniamins sack also a siluer cuppe, 4. and when they were parted, sending after them, chargeth them with theft. 12. And the cuppe being found in Beniamins sak, they al much afflicted returne to Ioseph. 17. Who threatning to keepe Beniamin, 18. Iudas intreateth, 32. and finally offereth himselfe to seruitude for him.

 

AND Ioseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fil their sackes with corne, as much as they can hold: and put the money of euerie one in the top of his sack. ²And in the sackes mouth ^[1] of the yonger put my siluer cup, and the price which he gaue for the wheat. And it was so done. ³And when the morning rose, they were dismist with their asses. ⁴And they were now departed out of the citie, and had gone forward a little way: then Ioseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, quoth he, and pursue the men: and ouertaking them say to them: Why haue you rendred euil for good? ⁵The cup which you haue stollen is that wherin my Lord doth drinke, and wherin he is wont to diuine: you haue done a verie euil thing. ⁶He did as he had commanded. And hauing ouertaken them, he spake to them in the same order. ⁷Who answered: Why doth our Lord speake so, as though thy seruants had committed so haynous a fact? ⁸The money, that we found in the top of our sackes, we recaried to thee from the land of Chanaan: & how followeth it, that we haue stollen out of thy Lordes house, gold or siluer? ⁹With whom soeuer of thy seruants that shal be found which thou seekest, let him die, and we wil be the bondmen of our Lord. ¹⁰Who said to them: Be it done according to your sentence: with whom soeuer it shal be found, be he my bondmen, and you shal be guiltles. ¹¹Therfore in hast taking downe their sackes vpon the ground, euerie man opened. ¹²Which when he had

1. By this Ioseph tried his brethrens affection, whether they would intreat for Beniamin, or suffer him to be captiue: as they had before sold himselfe to captiuitie. Theod. q. 105 in Gen.