33Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
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Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. …
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-34)We have here a most ingenious and pathetic speech which Judah made to Joseph on Benjamin’s behalf, to obtain his discharge from the sentence passed upon him. Perhaps Judah was a better friend to Benjamin than the rest were, and more solicitous to bring him off; or he thought himself under greater obligations to attempt it than the rest, because he had passed his word to his father for his safe ret…
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