Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7; Psalm 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19; 1 Corinthians 1:3-9; Mark 13:33-37 In 1915, Franz Kafka published The Metamorphosis, a novel about Gregor Samsa, a hardworking salesman and only breadwinner for his family, who one day, upon waking up from sleep, finds himself transformed into an ungeziefer, a monstrous vermin.The German term ungeziefer alludes...