“And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.”
When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him. The hatred of the brothers is the direct result of the visible favoritism. They cannot speak a kind word — the relational rupture is complete before anything dramatic has happened. The application: the family that organizes around visible parental preference will produce the hatred that makes the preferred son's survival dependent on luck and providence.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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