But mark this carefully: there is more than one road to destruction. There are differing ones, and wide apart from one another. For they who are like the wayside [in Jesus’ parable of the seeds and different kinds of soil] are the coarse-minded and indifferent and careless; but those on the rock such as failed from willed weakness only.
—John Chrysostom, The Gospel of Matthew, Homily 44.4-5
Ah, the alligators must have been on one of the other roads that I didn’t take. (See comment on the Augustine quote.) Then I’m glad I took the road I did! 🙂