Saturday, December 31, 2011
Psalm 48
Walk about Zion, go all around it,
count its towers,
consider well its ramparts;
go through its citadels,
that you may tell the next generation
that this is God,
our God for ever and ever.
He will be our guide for ever.
There is at least a touch of idolatry here.
This is not God.
Other translations are more ambiguous, using Zion's majesty as analogy.
Either reading strikes me as valid.
It is a helpful caution: in our seeking we ought not try to contain God.
That Which Exists is beyond definition, is infinite.
Any understanding of God, no matter how good and beautiful, is something less than fully True.
(The photograph is of the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem.)
Psalm 48
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