“Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.”
Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what comes of his dreams! The plan is complete: kill, dispose, lie. The mocking reference to the dreams — then we'll see what comes of his dreams — is the challenge to the divine word embedded in the murder plot. The application: the attempt to eliminate the person through whom God has spoken is ultimately the attempt to silence God's word.
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