[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I expect that familiar difficulties will arise if we pursue discussing Romans 12:20 in this context. I prefer to stop now.

That's fine. I'm engaging in an "analogous allegory" which I believe to be a morally valid under the over-arching Ethic of the passage, but you know that I deeply respect Calvin ("the first fundamentalist") in his distrust of the "allegorical" reading of Scripture, so I'm content to acknowledge the "charitable" traditional reading as the only immediate and direct teaching conferred by the Text if you prefer not to pursue the suggested "evangelistic" allegory.

[fortheDeclaration]

That's fine. I'm engaging in an "analogous allegory" which I believe to be a morally valid under the over-arching Ethic of the passage, but you know that I deeply respect Calvin ("the first fundamentalist") in his distrust of the "allegorical" reading of Scripture, so I'm content to acknowledge the "charitable" traditional reading as the only immediate and direct teaching conferred by the Text if you prefer not to pursue the suggested "evangelistic" allegory.

Gee, do you guys really talk that way?