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1Sa_20:29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king’s table.
Ver. 29. And my brother, he hath commanded me to be there.] This, some think, Jonathan added of his own; and Josephus addeth, that Jonathan said he was also invited. It is ordinary with some people, in relating a business, to add here and there something, the better to set off the tale, and to make it run the more roundly.