You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that it is really I who am speaking to you. The appeal to visible evidence — you can see for yourselves — is the appeal to direct perception over fear. They are looking at him; this is Joseph. The application: the revelation of identity that appeals to direct perception — look at me, this is really me — is the revelation that asks the brothers to trust what they can now see.

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