Shall I tell the tale of the Shepherd\'s Staff a few millenniums past? It is a time of few written records, and people seem to appear on the scene of life only to vanish in history. There is the character Melchizedek (and others) who seemed to arrive out of nowhere only to disappear into the same. May I suggest in this short novel another named person of faith who appeared as an aged saint in the early ministry of Paul the apostle, who may have eye-witness to more of the Messiah\'s life than an before or after him. For a few moments let us examine The Silas of he Lamb.