The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 20:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And God said unto him in a dream,—"It is in full agreement with the nature of dreams that the communication should be made in several, and not in one single act; cf. Genesis 37:1-36, and Genesis 41:1-57.

; Matthew 2:1-23." (Lange)—Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart—i.e. judged from thy moral standpoint. The words do not imply a Divine acquittal as to the essential guiltiness of the act, which is clearly involved in the instruction to seek the mediation of God's prophet (Matthew 2:7).

For I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her (vide on Matthew 2:4).

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