Thank you. I know it wasn’t until a few years ago that I understood (after teaching by our pastor) that the idea of an “eye for an eye” was a GOOD thing!
My wife likes the one in the New Testament about how being kind to one that hate you is like heaping coals on their head. (Or something). I’m guessing she is focusing more on the heaping coals than the being kind part though!
You should possibly suspect her (I’m joking) of studying the works of Jewish Chassidic philosophy which speak in exquisite depth about the love of G-d in terms of a coal... At times firery and at times seemingly cold or extinguished... But when one blows on it, the instead, internal flame leaps out. Ergo, your wife must be heaping those kind of coals...