And Joseph said unto them, What deed [is] this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
Ver. 15. What deed is this that ye have done?] As Joseph here, so Christ sometimes impersonates an adversary, when he intends most love.
Wot ye not that such a man as I, &c.] If that be true that some conceive of Joseph, that he, here and at Genesis 44:5, made himself a soothsayer, he was certainly to blame. "The lip of excellency becometh not a fool," saith Solomon, but "much less do lying lips a prince." Proverbs 17:7 , marg. That is, it is naught when wicked men will be using gracious words, to seem religious. But it is far worse, when good men will use the fashion of the wicked, that they may seem impious.