“There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God? The second argument is theological: sin against God. Joseph's full case against the proposition is relational (betrayal of Potiphar) and theological (sin against God). Both arguments are present; both are necessary. The application: the covenant reason to refuse a specific wrong includes both the human relationship it would damage and the divine relationship it would violate.
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