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2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” 3Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wi
... See moreC. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
What does the name “Adonai” declare God to be?
Kelvin McCune • Theology For Practical Christian Living
From all of this it should be clear that Jesus regarded his ministry as in continuity with, and bringing to a climax, the work of the great prophets of the Old Testament, culminating in John the Baptist, whose initiative he had used as his launching-pad.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have uttered falsehood and envisioned lies, I am against you, says the Lord GOD. 9My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations; they shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land
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Lest the reader fail to grasp the significance of the Hebrew name, John adds the Greek equivalent, Apollyon (9:11). John’s vision may represent a subversive satire of imperial ideology. Domitian claimed Apollo, one of whose symbols was the locust, as his patron deity; in John’s cosmos, however, “Apollo” is a creature of the abyss, the chief of a ho
... See moreBruce M. Metzger • Breaking the Code
God is a sending God.