“The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.”
The man who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us and treated us as though we were spying on the land. The description of Joseph as the man who is lord over the land is the brothers' account from their perspective — they have no idea who he is. The application: the people who encounter God's instruments of providence sometimes describe those encounters in terms of harsh authority without recognizing the grace that underlies the harshness.
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