כִּ֖י לוּלֵ֣א הִתְמַהְמָ֑הְנוּ כִּֽי־עַתָּ֥ה שַׁ֖בְנוּ זֶ֥ה פַעֲמָֽיִם׃
Sapagkat kung hindi kami nagpaantala, nakabalik na sana kami ngayon nang makalawang ulit.”
Who is the Heir of Divine Things
[255] And so it is Egypt which has its “task-drivers” (Ex. 5:6) who urge others to the enjoyment of the passions; it is Moses who bids eat the Passover and celebrate the crossing from passion “with haste” (Ex. 12:11). So too Judah, “for if we had not delayed, we should already have returned twice over” (Gen. 43:10). He does not mean “we should have gone down twice to Egypt,” but “we should have come up thence in safety.”