Colon or Semicolon?

[scripto]

Would you use a colon, or what device would you use, to join the 1st part of a sentence, beginning- Just as... to the 2nd part of the sentence, beginning- So was... Or - As (something): so does (something else) ?

[MikeNewYork]

Would you use a colon, or what device would you use, to join the 1st part of a sentence, beginning- Just as... to the 2nd part of the sentence, beginning- So was... Or - As (something): so does (something else) ?

Use a comma there.

Just as Moses led the Israelites to the Promised Land, so did Newt Gingrich bring new Republicans to Washington.