 | Eliezer Berkovits - 2002 - 436 pagini
...on behalf of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham acknowledges his own position with the words: "Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes." Yet he does speak, and in the clearest terms: "Far be it from you to act... | |
 | Timothy A. Robinson - 2002 - 452 pagini
...bargains with God, Abraham realises that there is something radically inappropriate about it: he says, "Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes . . . Oh let not the Lord be angry ..." (Genesis 18:27, 30). The fact is that Abraham could not, consistently... | |
 | Reuven Tsur - 2003 - 388 pagini
...by the episode when Abraham ventures to plead with God for the men of Sodom, saying (Gen. 18, 27): '"Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes'. [...] It is the emotion of a creature, submerged and overwhelmed by its own nothingness in contrast... | |
 | Leon Kass - 2003 - 722 pagini
..."all the city," he wants God to look only at the group of the vulnerable fifty righteous: "Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt thou destroy all the city for the lack of five?" (18:28; emphasis added). In His response, God, although again allowing Himself to... | |
 | Normand J. Michaud - 2003 - 78 pagini
...Genesis 13:16 Principal Analogy C7: God's covenant XXIII Fundamental Truth C8: "And Abraham answered and said, Behold now; I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord [God] which am but dust and ashes." Genesis 18:27 Principal Analogy C8: God's covenant XXIV Fundamental... | |
 | Martin Sicker - 2004 - 297 pagini
...sake. " l ' 7 And Abraham answered and said: "Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto YHVH, who am but dust and ashes. ' Peradventure there shall...fifty righteous; wilt Thou destroy all the city for the lack of five?" And He said: "I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five." ' And he spoke... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 516 pagini
...the] MS TS dust and in the SE CP dust and the SA dust and of the El— Cf. 'And Abraham answered and said. Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes', Genesis xviii.ay. In biblical times, the wearing of dust and ashes was a sign of humiliation or mourning.... | |
 | C. A. Campbell - 2002 - 476 pagini
...allow. The moment of religious feeling that is being sought after is well exemplified in Abraham's 'I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes'. The expression 'dust and ashes' points to something far deeper than the mere feeling of subjection... | |
 | Eliezer Berkovits - 2004 - 224 pagini
...on behalf of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham acknowledges his own position with the words: "Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes." Yet he does speak, and in the clearest terms: "Far be it from you to act... | |
 | Anonymous - 2005 - 1146 pagini
...taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Genesis 18:27 "And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:" If land symbolizes man, there is actually no good land for there is not any good man: Romans 3:10 "...There... | |
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Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. 
