26And 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.
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And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-28)We have here the good news brought to Jacob. 1. The relation of it, at first, sunk his spirits. When, without any preamble, his sons came in, crying, Joseph is yet alive , each striving which should first proclaim it, perhaps he thought they bantered him, and the affront grieved him; or the very mention of Joseph’s name revived his sorrow, so that his heart fainted, Gen. 45:26. It was a good while…
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