tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post1038917275453929922..comments2023-12-10T10:06:41.979+00:00Comments on mutations of mortality: Lines written on the first chapters of GenesisTerry Hamblinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06346629921055055879noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post-41852243990454786792008-01-02T15:51:00.000+00:002008-01-02T15:51:00.000+00:00I was struck that in the beginning of Genesis whil...I was struck that in the beginning of Genesis while creating the universe in six days, creating on the 6th day all living creatures (the lion and his prey by metonymy), God devoted a whole day to creating the sky, so it must have been important. I then thought of two of the sorts of sky we see in England, one with clouds as a backdrop to the Fall from Adam's point of view as the lovers (Adam and Eve, loving each other and loving God) weep their last goodbye, and the second cloudless sky where everything is sharp to define the expulsion from the garden from God's point of view - clearcut, precise and absolute. Hard as a mirror cast in steel is a near quotation from Job 37:18 "Hard as a mirror of cast bronze" and the theme is in Job 37:13 "he brings clouds to punish men".Terry Hamblinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06346629921055055879noreply@blogger.com