Here is a great mystery, yet it stands before us in broad daylight: “The first shall be last, and the last shall be first.”
Let’s think about this a bit. It isn’t a touch of divine irony, fooling our reasonable expectations that the first should be first, or close to it, and the last should be last, as they always are, and as they seem to want to stay. …
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