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18:1-33 GENESIS
as he hopes that Lot and his family might be rescued, he
is not so narrow or selfish as to think only of these. One
might almost say that with a heart kindled by the love
that God imparts to faith, Abraham ventures to plead the
case of God’s love over against God’s righteousness. We
may never know how these attributes of God are reconciled
to one another, except in so far as they blend in Christ.
But the boldness of this act of faith is acceptable with God
inasmuch as it is really born out of God’s heart. This
attribute is the ‘importunity’ Christ refers to in the parable
of Luke 11 :8.9’ On v, 2 5 (ihid. p. 5 5 0) : “Most amazing is
the free address of faith at this point. Yet, though it
strikes a responsive chord in every heart, hardly anyone
would be.. capable of venturing to address God thus.
Behind it lies absolute confidence in God’s fairness. Be-
sides, that grand and correct conception of God that was
characteristic of the patriarchs appears very definitely
here. God is far from being a tribal God; he is ‘the Judge
of, all the earth.’, , The critics have failed to evaluate this
fact properly.”
It has been rightly said that the three most important
s‘ for man to ponder are these: What am I?
hither am I bound?-that is to
ely of the nature, origin, and
en. 18:25 we face the problem
‘(ABG, ‘13 5 ) : -
Yahweh’s soliloq
the colloquy with Abraham which follows . . . what the
author sets ‘down is ot so much received tradition as
The result is a philosophical aside,
weh and the patriarch approach the
roblems in an enduring scheme of
theme is the relation between the
individual and society. For Yahweh, the individual who
matlters is Abraham. Having chosen Abraham as the means
for implementing His will, and as the spearhead in the
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