Having
opened that can of worms before, I know the feeling of looking at your watch
and realizing that you’ve inadvertently set yourself up
for a reply on the scale of a Homeric recitation of ancient Greek epic poetry in dactylic hexameter.
Then
again, sometimes it turns out the question wasn’t so simple after all. Or,
in this case, that it provided the occasion to do an in-depth study that I
trust may have had a few unexpected benefits.
In
Exodus 32 God told Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will
blot out of my book”. The simple question originally asked was, “What about those
who repented (if any did)?”