A Life You Need Not Regret

Reflection

The verse begins, “If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that….” In its chapter, this image points toward the cumulative direction of repeated choices. Read goodness here as a trainable direction—choices that reduce harm and leave less residue of regret. Because this is a historic English translation, test the teaching in experience rather than treating its wording as a demand for belief.