However at this point the brothers had only acknowledged their sin to one another and not to anyone who had not already known of it. Their confession, genuine as it was, still was without reference to the sovereign God of their fathers. It could merely have meant that history seems to follow a moral course; sin is often exposed and the guilty often punished. It took proof of God's presence and the details of the restoration of their money to cause them to bring God into the picture for the first time. Their cry was, “What is this that God has done to us?”
