How easy it is to forgive a fellow-being for anything done to us if we but look through the individual to the forces at work for us. Holding this Power responsible for all that occurs to us, we find that it always measures up to the responsibility and we have neither praise nor blame for our associates. We glory in the innate goodness of mankind when we find that the men who sold their brother Joseph will protect Benjamin with their lives. A father like Jacob, a brother like Joseph, must of necessity redeem them. Nothing that anyone ever does to us really injures us, only our own attitude of thought can do that.
All injury is actually self-inflicted.
Joseph s brothers did not injure him when they sold him into slavery. If God be all-power then there is no other power, and the power of Joseph is seen to be the reflection of the Power that he believed in. The families of each of the eleven brothers become eleven of the tribes of Israel. Joseph s name is not given to a tribe, but the two half tribes of Ephraim and Mannasseh, sons of Joseph, become the twelfth tribe. Thus they strongly entrenched themselves in the land, and securely held this kingdom for five hundred years.