abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them. Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt’, and had committed great blasphemies.… (Neh 9:17–18, emphasis added) In the middle of their prayer, they quote Exod 34:6. They apply that Scripture to their specific context. Second, an example from the NT: After the antagonistic Sanhedrin release Peter and John in Acts 4, how does the early church respond? And when they heard it,