@JonEricson :-) I knew it was a remote job and that you're not in NYC, but wondered if you had a coworker within driving range at all. Sounds like not.
BTW, do you happen to know if the deletion of my comment about Asher et al (the one you talked about here) was intentional or accidental? I thought that was a pretty important comment and it's gone now, but a bunch of responses are still there.
@JonEricson would you consider undeleting it? I could post it again, of course, but (a) it would be out of sequence and (b) it might prompt more hostility directed my way.
@JonEricson understood. The whole thread is due for a cleanup, but that's actually one of the few comments that I think needs to stay and it's one of only a few that got deleted.
@JonEricson I think there was an earlier round of cleanup, but this just happened today. There's more work to be done there for sure (including maybe the last few; the last one is particularly questionable). But meanwhile, I really appreciate you restoring that one.
Why does the Scripture say that Abraham sacrificed his "only-begotten son" (Heb. 11:17, Gen. 22:2) despite the fact that Isaac had a step-brother Ishmael who was 14 years older than Isaac and was in fact the first-born son of Abraham?
I'm going to be pretty aggressive about wiping out comment threads that devolve into comments directed at previous comments. Let's get the important points into answers (or new questions).