Around the year 67 A.D., Paul tagged Timothy to alert him to be on guard for Alexander the coppersmith because he did Paul a great deal of harm. (2 Timothy 4:14) Perhaps Alexander’s public shaming caused him to repent? Could Paul then have written a follow up letter stating he accepted Alexander’s apology but that letter got ‘lost in the mail?’ So here we are almost a couple thousand years later still reading what a bad guy Alexander was and…..