Call No One Happy until They Are Dead

Call No One Happy Until They are Dead
Genesis 46:1-34

Introducing Genesis 44 I referred to one incident in the life of a man and a woman; then, introducing Genesis 45, I referred to an aspect of my wife’s and my life. In different ways, both stories show how at the time something happens, you can never see the entire significance of a particular incident. There is an ancient Greek saying that urges people to call no one happy until they are dead. It is not the gloomy statement it at first sounds; it means that only at the end of someone’s life is it possible to make a judgment, when you can look at the life as a whole...