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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Is.45:7 God created evil?
  • Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:55:45 -0500

Let me add a lexicographic note: the verb used in 2 Samuel
was not that God commanded David to number the people,
rather that he instigated the action, i.e. allowed the
temptation to occure. David could have resisted it, but
didn't.

The verb is SWT to instigate, rouse into action.

True, this is understanding the text in the same manner as
1 Corinthians 10:13, which not everyone here agrees with.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>

>
> Dear Chris,
>
> ...
> HH: The Chronicler relied on the documents in 1 & 2 Samuel, or to
> sources from which 1 & 2 Samuel derived. So any reader would or could
> discover that the "adversary" was God. All the Chronicler would have
> done was obscure the truth, which the reader could eventually
> discover anyway and still be left with the same theological issue. It
> seems much more helpful that he clarified how God was acting only
> indirectly through His providential permission of Satan's action. The
> Chronicler made plain what the reader of 2 Samuel was supposed to
> understand, that God is sovereign over all that happens, however it
> happens. The words "God did such and so" allow for secondary agency
> and even secondary will. By changing "God" to "Satan" the Chronicler
> shed spiritual light on a text (1 Samuel 24) that required some
> sophistication to read properly.
>
> HH: The text in 2 Samuel obliges one to insert an agency like Satan,
> even though it is not stated. For God could hardly command someone
> directly to do something and then punish him for doing it (2 Sam
> 24:13-17). And David could easily have exonerated himself on the
> grounds of obedience if God had directly commanded him to act, but
> instead he feels guilt (2 Sam 24:10). He feels he has sinned (v. 17),
> acting contrary to God, not in obedience to Him. What is implicit in
> the Samuel account is made explicit by the Chronicler.
>
> Yours,
> Hariold Holmyard

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