And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
Ver. 11. I had not thought to see thy face.] God delights to outbid the hopes of his people, and to be better to them than their deserts, than their desires, yea, than their faith. Isaiah 54:2,3 ; Isaiah 54:12 ; Isa 54:14 As it is storied of a certain emperor, that he delighted in no undertakings so much as in those that his counsellors and captains held impossible: and he seldom miscarried. So God, Exodus 15:11 .