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Gen_43:12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry [it] again in your hand; peradventure it [was] an oversight:
Ver. 12. And take double money.] Invaluerat enim fames, {Gen_43:1} ideoque annonae pretium auctum erat, saith Junius. It went hard with the inhabitants of Samaria, when an ass’s head was worth four pounds.
Peradventure it was an oversight.] Which called for restitution; we must buy and sell by that standard, {Mat_7:12} "Whatever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye the same to them." Now no man would be cheated. Woe be to him that cries Caveat emptor; He that cannot lie, cannot live, {a} &c. "God is the avenger of all such." {1Th_4:6}
{a} Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit vivere.