And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his
brethren,
&c.] As a dream, in the simplicity of his heart; not
understanding it, or imagining there was any meaning in it; he
told it not with any design to affront them, but as an amusement,
and for their diversion, there being something in it odd and
ridiculous, as he himself might think:
and they hated him yet the more;
not only because he had carried an ill report of them to his
father, and because he loved him more than they, but still more
because of this dream; the meaning of which they at once
understood, though he did not, which yet they supposed he did,
and that he told them it in a boasting manner, and to irritate
them.