You were singing, he was being judged You were beating time, he was bring nailed You were dancing, he was being buried You were stretched on a soft couch, he in a coffin and the grave.26 In a passage which—despite its literary beauty—makes painful reading from many points of view, Melito also contrasts the beneficence of God in Israel’s history, especially at the Exodus and in the ministry of Jesus, with Israel’s deliberate blindness and rejection of Jesus: He it was who chose you and guided you