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ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XLIII.

34. Inebriated.) Not that they did eate or drinke too much, or fel into excesse, but competently. As the earth is said to be inebriated with raine (Psal. 64.) being sufficiently watered, and so made fruitful, not drowned, nor ouerflowed, for so it is vnfruitful. S. Hierome. Tradit. Heb. S. Aug. q. 144. super Gen.

CHAP. XLIIII.

ND Ioseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fil their sackes with corne, as much as they can hold: and put the money of euerie one in the top of his sack. And in the sackes mouth of the yonger put my siluer cup, and the price which he gaue for the wheat. And it was so done. And when the morning rose, they were dismist with their asses. And they were now departed out of the citie, and had gone forward a little way: then Ioseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, quoth he, and pursue the men: and ouertaking them say to them: Why haue you rendred euil for good? The cup which you haue stollen is that wherin my Lord doth drinke, and wherin he is wont to diuine: you haue done a verie euil thing. He did as he had commanded. And hauing ouertaken them, he spake to them in the same order. Who answered: Why doth our Lord speake so, as though thy seruants had committed so haynous a fact? The money, that we found in the top of our sackes, we recaried to thee from the land of Chanaan: & how followeth it, that we haue stollen out of thy Lordes house, gold or siluer? With whom soeuer of thy seruants that shal be found which thou seekest, let him die, and we wil be the bondmen of our Lord. Who said to them: Be it done according to your sentence: with whom soeuer it shal be found, be he my bondmen, and you shal be guiltles. Therfore in hast taking downe their sackes vpon the ground, euerie man opened. Which when he had Rh