Why should the Corinthians escape judgment, if their “ancestors” did not? I can overlook these collective dimensions of shared kinship and shared history when I read stories in the Bible through my individualist eyes. The better I understand this, the better I can remember what “my ancestors” experienced in the exodus. Like the Corinthians, this Gentile now has a new family history. I need to see spray-painted on my walls “Never forget” what happened to my ancestors in the desert.
