I read your quote from Proverbs and I think of Acts 2:39
“This promise is for you and for your children and for those still far off”.
Do not be too harsh with us Catholics, dear Dr. E.
The promise is for us also and we do, by our Divine Liturgy, acknowledge Him as the one Lamb of God slain for us, as we have done from the beginning.
Pax Christi.
As Albert Brooks said in "Mother"...
"I know you think you do."
(Just joshin', ROE. That's one of my favorite lines from a favorite movie. It used to be funnier when our family was chortling over my mother's "protective ice crystals." Now, I fear, the mantle has passed to moi. As Spartacus might have said if he had done the dishes, "I am Mother.")