Of Willfulness and the Consequences

Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

Hindsight, as the saying goes, is 20/20.

The Babylonian exiles knew what they’d done wrong. Baruch may have detailed the sins on the scroll, and Asaph or a member of a guild may have written or transcribed the plea for forgiveness in Psalm 79 (“Remember not against us the iniquities of the past; may your compassion quickly come to us, for we are brought very low”),...