“And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s heart fainted, for he believed them not.”
They told him: Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt. Jacob was stunned; he did not believe them. The announcement — Joseph is still alive — is the message Jacob has not heard for twenty-two years, and it is so far outside his world of possibility that he cannot believe it. The application: the news that reverses the longest, deepest grief can be too large to receive immediately. Jacob is stunned. He does not believe them.
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