“And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.”
Then Joseph said to his brothers: come close to me. When they had done so, he said: I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! The invitation to come close — come close to me — is the invitation to draw near to the person you have been most afraid to face. The repetition of I am Joseph and the naming of what they did — the one you sold — are both present in the same sentence. The application: the grace of come close to me does not pretend the past did not happen. Both are present: the invitation and the naming.
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