The imprisonment of Simeon, v. 24. The dismission of the rest of them. Thus Christ, our Joseph, gives out supplies without money and without price. Guilty consciences are apt to take good providences in a bad sense, and to put wrong constructions even upon those things that make for them. They flee when none pursues.
Wealth sometimes brings as much care along with it as want does, and more too.
If they had been robbed of their money, they could not have been worse frightened than they were now when they found their money in their sacks. Yet in their circumstances it was very amazing. When men's spirits are sinking every thing helps to sink them. When the events of Providence concerning us are surprising it is good to enquire what it is that God has done and is doing with us, and to consider the operation of his hands. Here is, 1.