She creeps to the phone and quietly calls the police, but is worried that they might not get there in time. So she decides to appeal to the guy's conscience with a Bible verse. She yells out, "Acts 2:38!" On hearing this, the man puts down his tools, and puts his hands over his head.
Just then, the police get there and arrest him.
As he's being booked, the arresting officer says, "I've got to ask you something. You were almost in the house. Why did you stop and give up just because that lady yelled some scripture?"
"Scripture?!" he answered. "I thought she was saying she had an ax and two .38's!"
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When we played Bible Charades when the boys were young (nightly devotions were nothing if not interesting here), I acted one out and got the rest of the family saying "Axe of the opossums?" I grew progressively more angry as they couldn't get it from there, sure that they were intentionally tormenting me. I eventually had to tell them, furious. I made my accusation. My eldest assured me it was not so. "You were so enraged we all just froze, unable to think straight. We didn't even dare guess."
Sometimes being scary has a downside, doesn't it? My wrath, as also with lust, has cooled substantially as I've aged. I think of both as almost unalloyed goods.
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