And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see
thy
face
Some years ago he never expected to have seen him any more; he
had given him up for lost, as a dead man, when his sons brought
him his coat dipped in blood; and by reason of the long course of
years which passed before ever he heard anything of him:
and, lo, God hath showed me also thy seed;
it was an additional favour to see his offspring; it can hardly
be thought, that in a course of seventeen years he had been in
Egypt, he had not seen them before, only he takes this
opportunity, which was the last he should have of expressing his
pleasure on this occasion.
Genesis 48:11
