“And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.”
But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. The plot to kill Joseph begins with seeing him in the distance — the same distance of hatred established in verse 4. Before he arrives, the sentence is proposed. The application: the hatred that cannot speak a kind word has moved to murder before the object of hatred is close enough to speak.
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