God’s loving kindness was beyond telling, he was afraid he might move the one he was petitioning to indignation at him, and so he said, ‘ “Pardon me, Lord,’ ” surely, I’m not doing something rash? I’m not giving evidence of shamelessness, am I? I’m not committing a deed deserving of condemnation in speaking still again, am I? In that great goodness of yours accept from me one further petition. “ ‘But what if ten can be found there?’ He replied, ‘For the sake of the ten I will not destroy it.’ ” And