A WORD FOR ESAU
Sir-On Saturday, June 22, from 2YC I was very pleased to hear the Greek writer, Kay Cicellis, put in a good word for Esau, in her talk with the Gaelic minister. How often have I heard clerymen candemn Esau because he sold his. birthright for a mess of pottage! During the last war I was stationed at Assab on the shores of the Gulf of Aden. There were 350 miles of desert between us-and the nearest town, which was Dessie, in Abyssinia. An Arab told me that when a man got lost in the desert his body became so dehydrated, and his throat muscles so useless, that he could speak but not swallow. They would make a thick porridge of split peas or lentils, put a ball of it into his mouth and push it back against the throat with a stick. After a while this poultice relaxed the muscles and he was able to swallow, when the whole _ condition cleared up. When Esau said that he would die if he cid not get the pottage he was stating a fact. I have read the life of Esau very carefully since then and he emerges a bigger man than his brother.
J.
NICOL
, (Tahunanui).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 935, 12 July 1957, Page 27
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208A WORD FOR ESAU New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 935, 12 July 1957, Page 27
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