“And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.”
Their father Jacob said to them: you have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me! Jacob's grief is the grief of the man who does not know the full story — Joseph is not no more, and Simeon will be returned. The application: the person who speaks from incomplete knowledge will make declarations about the meaning of events that the complete picture would revise. Jacob speaks from genuine grief and genuine ignorance simultaneously.
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