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They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
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Verse 21. We deserve. Conscience upbraids. “Punishment opens the mouth, which sin had shut.” Saint Gregory Menochius.—They had sold Joseph about 22 years before! Calmet.
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