The Bent-Knee Time

Never was diplomacy – love’s wooing, winning diplomacy – sent on a harder mission than when Joseph set out to do – what? Be willing 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.