“And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.”
Joseph said to his brothers: I am Joseph! Is my father still living? But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence. The three words — I am Joseph — are the most devastating and most beautiful disclosure in Genesis. The brothers cannot answer; they are terrified. The application: the revelation of the identity of the one you wronged is always terrifying before it is liberating. The terror precedes the grace.
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