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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: "Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Is.45:7 God created evil?
  • Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:29:48 +0100

On 05/08/2005 10:37, Read, James C wrote:

In 2Sam24:1 there are two clauses

In the first clause, Yahowah's anger grows hot against Isreal.
Why?
In the second clause, someone incites David to make a census of Isreal.

The verb in question in the second clause is WaYYaSeTH and the subject of the verb is not implicit. ...


Wrong, James. The subject of a following verb, if not specified or ruled out e.g. by gender, is implicitly the same as that of the preceding verb. So, in this case, the grammatical subject of the second verb is the anger of YHWH.

... This entire discussion is based on the assumption that the subject for
the second clause is the same as that of the first clause. This does not make sense. Yahowah's anger is not a person!


But YHWH's anger is often personified and used as an agent. This is of course a metonymy for YHWH himself, when angry.

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