“And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.”
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard. The commercial transaction continues: from brothers to Ishmaelites to Midianites to Potiphar. Joseph moves through several hands on his way to the household where his story will develop. The application: the providence that is working through the Joseph story operates through commercial transactions, migration, and household placement — the ordinary machinery of the ancient world.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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