““You ask a question that philosophers argue over,” Chiron had said. “He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?” We had been silent. We were fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard.”- (Madeline Miller – The Song of Achilles)
“But we have overthrown them; Heshbon’s dominion has been destroyed all the way to Dibon. We have demolished them as far as Nophah, which extends to Medeba.” (Numbers 21:30)
“Spring up, O well! Sing about it, about the well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people sank—
the nobles with scepters and staffs.” (Numbers 21:17-18)
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ- by grace you have been saved.” – (Ephesians 2:4-5)
“You did not trust in me.” – (Numbers 20:12)