I've just been lecturing on religious language and came to some of the
messages re. the 'vengefulness' of God in the Bible on this list. We
need to bear in mind that English translations are not always very
helpful and we need to ask what the Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek original
meant / implied. Words have meaning only in contexts - so to say God is
a jealous God in Exodus may not have meant quite what it sounds like at
first hearing to us today.
Charles Read
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