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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 42:7 - 42:7
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Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, ... but they knew not him - This is not strange. They were full-grown men - he was but a lad at parting. They were in their usual garb - he was in his official robes. They never dreamt of him as governor of Egypt, while he had been expecting them. They had but one face; he had ten persons to judge by.
made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly - It would be an injustice to Joseph’s character to suppose that this stern manner was prompted by any vindictive feelings - he never indulged any resentment against others who had injured him. But he spoke in the authoritative tone of the governor in order to elicit some much-longed-for information respecting the state of his father’s family, as well as to bring his brethren, by their own humiliation and distress, to a sense of the evils they had done to him.