Are you the same person who set up the previous WayofaPilgrim web site? The site ended in October, and I’m not sure if you continued in a different format. I subscribed to the old web site. Please let me know. thanks!

Linda

Thanks for the links to Maundy Thursday for us “low church” types, and to the free verse *The Shelter of Words.*

He is risen!
He is risen, indeed!

http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1108_calvinism_arminianism__education/

The simplest interpretation is that Reuben for one reason or another did not eat with his brother’s that day and was surprised by their decision to sell Joseph. There is no reason to think that the brothers did not intend to kill Joseph at some point.

It is possible that this story is a compilation of a couple different sources, but those sources are telling the same story.

The post you referenced does not seem to be making that argument that the brothers were playing a practical joke, rather it is arguing that they never intended to kill him themselves, rather they wanted to leave him to fend for himself against the wild animals.

I personally find nothing compelling about the arguments in the post you cite.

My wife and I were just at the game last week against ISU. We look really good right now but a loss or two before the tourney may not be bad. Maybe it’ll come Wed night.

Cheers.