I’ve been tagged by Jeff with the 123 Book Meme.

The rules state that I must pick up the book closest to me and:

1. turn to page 123
2. count the first five sentences
3. post the following three sentences

Here is Christopher J. H. Wright’s “Knowing Jesus through the Old Testament”.

“In the texts above, for example, they are ‘rebellious sons’, ‘faithless sons’, or ‘lying sons’. This second aspect of Israel’s sonship thus clearly corresponds to the other side of the covenant relationship, namely the imperative demand for obedience- a demand which applied to all individual members of the nation.

So what we find then, is that both poles of the covenant (God’s initiative and Israel’s obedience) are held together within the same relational metaphor of father and son.

Consider yourself tagged!