By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The speaker admits he answered injury with return injury, separating his own wounded pride from Christ's impossible standard of forbearance.
What gives the page its force is the refusal to spiritualize the event. He says plainly that he was not Christ, did not let the insult go, and paid for it. The final distinction is harsh but clear: what belongs to Christ cannot be taken, but a human self can be damaged and stripped.
To Late: he turned on me, I turned on him, I was not Christ. You can not take from Christ, but you can take it from me.