My son, if sinners entice you, don’t go along with them. Suppose they say, “Come along with us: we’ll ambush some‑body and kill him, we’ll waylay some harmless soul, just for fun.… rather, they are ambushing themselves to shed their own blood, waylaying themselves. So are the ways of all greedy for gain—it takes the lives of those who get it. (Vv. 10–11, 18–19) In Chicago, in the early 1990’s, the story circulated in the press of a gang with
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