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Rh  coat was made of many pieces, of as many different colours, to signify that the Lord's righteousness was made up of many different graces and virtues. And as the many-coloured pieces of Joseph's coat were made into one beautiful garment, so the many virtues of our Lord's holy and beautiful life were united and blended, so as to form an entire and beautiful whole. His meekness, His mercy, His love, His forbearance, His forgiveness, His goodness, these and other graces and virtues were like the many different pieces of His garment, and each of them had a colour of its own, which harmonised with all the others, and made a divine and heavenly vesture of surpassing beauty.

For those who are able to take another step in this spiritual view of the coat of many colours, I may mention that we may think of the Lord as the Word. He is called by this name. "In the beginning was the Word—and the Word was made flesh." The written and the incarnate Word are inseparable: from the Lord is Truth itself. In reference to the Word, the coat of many pieces and colours is