The Importance of a Cheap Egyptian Tailor

If a cheap Egyptian tailor had not cheated on the threads of Joseph's mantle, it would not have come apart in the hands of Potiphar's wife when Joseph fled from her seduction. God has very dangerous tastes and very permissive tastes. He permits a lot of evil in the plot of his great story and works it out for good and brings us to the brink. Our salvation has sometimes hung on a thread. The clearest case, I think, is Gollum, and I'll talk about him more later.