Before I could be taken to Mount Moriah before a ram could be found to replace me before I was a redeemed first born the ram was left unsacrificed the redeemed was lost and the first born became the last.
And all the martyrs who were lost before my birth, are still lost despite it. I have become a singularity a new word in an old Darwinian lexicon an irregular verb without plural or future tense unique in every respect and definition save all who would follow after and not be of me or ever could.