One of the thirteen sons of Israel:
Joseph---when he had been raised from the well
and taken by traders of Ishmael
to Egypt---entered, there, his mnistry
among those people of gentility
against the famine's brutal misery.
And now we have a somewhat parallel
arrangement among us, and it describes
how we twelve ministser to all the tribes
of Jacob, while you, Paul, go to the nations
outside, like Joseph, and bring them Salvation's
good news, the words of Christ: light to dispel
their darkness and to save them from all hell
broke loose upon them in their generations.
Starward
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