Genesis 42:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

We [are] all one man's sons; we [are] true [men], thy servants are no spies.

Ver. 11. We are all one man's sons.] Therefore no spies; for what one man would hazard all his sons at once upon so dangerous a design?

We are true men.] Heb., Recti. The Popish doctors reject those ancient authors that are alleged against them, with Non sunt Recti in Curia. Bellarmine saith, To Irenaeus, Tertullian, Eusebius, and Luther, I answer, Omnes manifesti haeretici sunt; when anything in the decrees likes not the Pope, he sets Palea upon it, &c. a

a De Christo, lib. i. cap. 4.

Genesis 42:11

11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.