John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 42:7
And Joseph saw his brethren ,.... Among those that came to buy corn, and when they prostrated themselves before him: and he knew them ; some of them being at man's estate, and their beards grown when they sold him, and their habits and dress now being much the same it was then, and by them he knew the younger: but made himself strange unto them ; took no notice of them as his relations, but carried himself to them as he did to other foreigners, and yet more strangely: and spake... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 42:7-20
We may well wonder that Joseph, during the twenty years that he had now been in Egypt, especially during the last seven years that he had been in power there, never sent to his father to acquaint him with his circumstances; nay, it is strange that he who so often went throughout all the land of Egypt (Gen. 41:45, 46) never made an excursion to Canaan, to visit his aged father, when he was in the borders of Egypt, that lay next to Canaan. Perhaps it would not have been above three or four days?... read more