Commentary
Joseph and His Brethren
The Watch Tower (unsigned)
Unsigned article in The Watch Tower of 1 August 1918 that reads the story of Joseph and his brethren as a type of the church’s last years. On Genesis 45:6 it counts five years “to the spring of 1925, to the resurrection of the ancient worthies.”
Read on Rainbow Watch
Edition and location
The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (Brooklyn, N.Y.), vol. XXXIX, no. 15, 1 August 1918 (masthead, p. 227), unsigned article “Joseph and His Brethren,” p. 232, the paragraph on Genesis 45:6 from “For these two years” through “—Gen. 45:6.” Read in the Watch Tower Society’s reprint of the magazine: Internet Archive item magazines-the-watchtower-and-herald-christ-presence-1918, BookReader leaves 111 (masthead, reprint p. [6299]) and 114 (reprint p. [6302]). Transcribed from the page images. Line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
p. 232