Some men, maybe the quieter types, might just grieve inside at the betrayal. A few weeks later you can tell that she is pregnant she is showing. And you know that your son could not possible be the father because he was halfway around the world. St. Augustine, many long years ago, said, Nothing so demonstrates the spiritual person as their treatment of someone else s sin . . . Let me repeat that.
Nothing so demonstrates the spiritual person as their treatment of someone else s sin.
This morning, for starters, we consider Joseph. His situation is a bit more serious than either of the two scenes put before you. You see, in Joseph s time, the idea of engagement or betrothal was quite a bit more serious than engagement is today. Today, engagements are broken fairly regularly and relatively easily. In Joseph s time, there were only two possible routes to escape the betrothal agreement death or divorce.