“And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?”
They replied: the man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. Is your father still living? he asked. Do you have another brother? We simply answered his questions. Could we possibly have known that he would say, bring your brother down here? The defense is accurate: they answered the questions they were asked. The application: answering the questions asked honestly is not the cause of the trouble that the honest answers reveal. The truth creates the conditions; it does not create the problem.
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