Now a thing. — He now proceeds to enforce and illustrate what he has said in highly poetical language, which has been versified in one of Byron’s Hebrew Melodies.
Secretly brought to me. — Literally, was stolen for me. Joseph uses the same expression of himself in Genesis 40:15.
Mine ear received a little, compared with the inexhaustible resources remaining unrevealed. The word used for little is only found once again, and in the mouth of Job (Job 26:14).