Genesis 44:2 (WEB)
Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
Fathers and councils · 2
Ambrose of Milan
“What of his gentleness, whereby by a pious fraud he sought to gain the presence of his beloved brother whom, under pretence of a well-planned theft, he declared to have stolen his property, that he might hold him as a hostage of his love?” — editor's note: Gen. xliv. 2 ff.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For says he, this is the cup “Condy, out of which the king, while he quaffs, draws his omens.”” — editor's note: Gen. xliv. 2–5.
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