Read to them, and especially to the children, of how certain brothers sold their own brother into slavery, the dear youth Joseph,11 a dreamer and a great prophet, and told their father that a wild beast had torn him, showing him his bloodstained garments. Read how afterwards the brothers went to Egypt for bread, and Joseph, now a great courtier, unrecognized by them, tormented them, accused them, seized his brother Benjamin, and all the while loving them:”I love you, and loving you, I torment you.” For all his life he constantly remembered how they had sold him to the merchants, somewhere in
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