If value relates directly to plot, then virtue relates directly to character. Virtue answers the question, “What kind of person should I be?” Just as value comes in pairs of binary opposites, so does virtue. At least it did in the Greco-Roman world, when moralists produced lists of virtues and their corresponding vices. The New Testament tapped into such lists, in formulating qualifications for church leaders (1 Tim 3:2–3): Virtues temperate; hospitable; gentle (etc.) Vices given to wine; covetous; quarrelsome (etc.)
