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by S. D. Gordon

Week 50, Tuesday

Rare Diplomacy

Tuesday. Gen. 43: 26-34.

Never was diplomacy — love’s wooing, winning diplomacy — sent on a harder mission than when Joseph set out to do — what? Be wilHng to forgive his brothers’ terrible conduct toward himself? No, no; something far different: to make them really broken-hearted to think they should have treated him so. This explains all his rarely keen, subtly shrewd — yet always loving and honest — handling of them, from first to last. This sets the standard for real, full forgiveness.

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