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:" If today you had to choose one of the two thieves as a friend or think about which of the two you could sooner put your trust in, it's certainly not that whimpering convert.

No, it's the other one, he's a real man with character.

He doesn't give a hoot about converting, which in his situation can only be pretty speechifying ; he travels his path to the end, and doesn't act like a coward at the last minute, renouncing the Devil, who must have helped him up until then.

He's a man of character, and people of character generally get short shrift in Bible stories.

Maybe he's a descendant of Cain.

Don't you think so?