Boiling Oil Stops Bible Argument Cold

There was a time when boiling oil was regularly used to try and settle disputes - usually poured over the edge of a wall and onto the heads of angry hordes, as I understand it. Perhaps some would like to see the practice reintroduced, though modified for modern circumstances.

CBS 11 reports about a woman in Eugene, Oregon, who poured boiling oil on her boyfriend’s face:

The two were reading the Bible at the boyfriend's apartment May 13 when Morris went to the kitchen to prepare french fries, police said. Morris told police that they continued to argue and that her boyfriend grabbed her from behind. Police said he then went to his bedroom to lie down. Morris followed and threw the oil on him, police said.

I wonder which Bible verse they were arguing over such that Morris felt it appropriate to punctuate her position with boiling oil. Something about loving one’s neighbor, perhaps, or maybe injunctions against coveting that same neighbor’s ass?

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