Adam Clarke Commentary - Genesis 45:5

Adam Clarke Commentary - Genesis 45:5 - 45:5

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Genesis 45:5 - 45:5

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

45:1 - 45:1
45:2 - 45:2
45:3 - 45:3
45:5 - 45:5
45:6 - 45:6
45:8 - 45:8
45:10 - 45:10
45:12 - 45:12
45:14 - 45:14
45:20 - 45:20
45:21 - 45:21
45:22 - 45:22
45:23 - 45:23
45:24 - 45:24
45:26 - 45:26
45:27 - 45:27
45:28 - 45:28

Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves - This discovers a truly noble mind: he not only forgives and forgets, but he wishes even those who had wronged him to forget the injury they had done, that they might not suffer distress on the account; and with deep piety he attributes the whole to the providence of God; for, says he, God did send me before you to preserve life. On every word here a strong emphasis may be laid. It is not you, but God; it is not you that sold me, but God who sent me; Egypt and Canaan must both have perished, had not a merciful provision been made; you were to come down hither, and God sent me before you; death must have been the consequence of this famine, had not God sent me here to preserve life.