9/25/2023 0 Comments Age of wonders 3 mount disappearedWhat is strange is that these sound more like the words of God than of some angel they are a promise to make Hagar's descendants, the Ishmaelites, uncountable at some future time. The angel only speaks, but what it says is strange: "I shall multiply your seed, that it will not be counted because of its multiple" (16:10). "And the angel of Yahweh found her at the water well in the wilderness." The text does not say whether the angel is visible to Hagar or what it looks like. Hagar is pregnant and alone, in flight from Abraham's wife, Sarah. The first explicit mention of an angel in the Bible is in the story of Abraham's runaway concubine, Hagar (Genesis 16). To know what is pictured in the biblical texts themselves, we have to scrutinized the specific stories in which angels appear. Most readers' concepts of angels are influenced by Renaissance art: wings, halos, tranquil faces. : The Disappearance of God : A Divine MysteryĬhapter One: "He Fought With God.
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