Holy Scripture
Genesis 45:26
A church father on this verse
“I do not understand these words to have been said in the usual sense. For if, for example, we should assume that he could have been overcome with lust and sinned with his master's wife, I do not think that this would have been announced about him by the patriarchs to his father Jacob: "Your son Joseph is living." For…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
26And they reported to him, saying, Thy son Joseph is living, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt; and Jacob was amazed, for he did not believe them.
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24And he sent away his brethren, and they went; and he said to them, Be not angry by the way.
25And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
— Genesis 45:26 —
27But they spoke to him all the words uttered by Joseph, whatsoever he said to them; and having seen the chariots which Joseph sent to take him up, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
28And Israel said, It is a great thing for me if Joseph my son is yet alive, I will go and see him before I die.