“Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.”
And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. The theological interpretation of the selling — God sent me ahead of you — is the most radical reframing in the Bible short of the cross. What the brothers meant as abandonment, God was using as sending. The application: the theological reframing that says God sent me is not the denial of the brothers' guilt but the revelation of the larger story within which the guilt was operating. Both are true.