Gem and Setting.--Jesus of Nazareth, a descendant in the flesh of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, fulfilled the divine promise made to those patriarchs, that in their Seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed. But in contemplating the central fact of the Savior's personal ministry, we must not overlook the related facts that went before or followed after. The gem has its setting. Christ redeemed mankind, "treading the wine press alone;" but the House of Israel prepared the way for his coming, and carried on the work that he began. This is especially true of the prophets who foretold his advent, and of the apostles who preached the Gospel to Jew and Gentile. There is only one Savior, but He has "many brethren," and they are preeminently "the salt of the earth," the preserving or saving element among men. Princes and Servants.--If the name Israel means "prince of God" when applied to Jacob, may it not mean "princes of God" when applied to his posterity? He was promised that kings should come out of his loins. And have they not come?--princes and priests and kings, the nobility of Heaven, though not always known and appreciated on earth. The Greatest among them was not recognized even by "His own." The wise Solomon was never wiser than when he said: "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." [23] The mighty Prince of Peace, the glorious King of Heaven, walked unknown and unhonored by his own servants in the dust of his own footstool. Footnotes 1. Gen. 32:22-30. 2. Ib. 35:10, 11. 3. Ruth 4:11. 4. Gen. 12:1-3; Abr. 2:3-11. 5. Geike, "Hours with the Bible," Vol. 1, Ch. 13. 6. Gen. 14:18. 7. D. and C. 84:14. 8. Heb. 7:4. 9. D. and C. 107:1-4. 10. Gen. 17:3-6. 11. Ib. 22:1-18. 12. Abr. 3:22, 23. Read also verses 24-26. 13. Gen. 2:7; Moses 3:7, 9; D. and C. 88:15. 14. Manifestly, the second estate is a greater test of integrity than the first, and ought to result, as it does to those who overcome, in a far more glorious reward. 15. Gal. 6:7. 16. See Article Twelve. 17. John 9:2. 18. Abr. 3:18, 19. 19. Gen. 18:19. 20. Rom. 8:29. 21. Alma 13:3. 22. Deut. 32:7, 8. 23. Eccl. 10:7. ARTICLE EIGHTEEN. Moses and Aaron. Joseph in Egypt.--In the whole range of Bible literature, if we except what is told of the Redeemer and Savior, there is nothing more beautiful than the story of Joseph in Egypt. Joseph the dreamer, sold into slavery, exalted to a throne, and becoming, by God's design, a savior to his father's house. Who cannot see in this a prophetic likeness of the universal redemption wrought out by Him who descended below all, that He might rise above all, and deliver the souls of men from spiritual famine and starvation?