About twenty years ago, there'd...
About twenty years ago, there'd been an attack in Jerusalem by Palestinians. The nightly
news showed where a bomb exploded and also a spontaneous demonstration by some of
Jerusalem's young men. They chanted, repeating one frightening word: "Neqamah!
Neqamah!" Modern Hebrew is a revival of ancient, biblical Hebrew, thus I
understood this word, "Vengeance!"
Vengeance is a dominant theme in the Old Testament: an eye (but only one) for an eye.
However, Paul the apostle reports, "in spite of persecution you received the word with
