diff --git a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/intro.md b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/intro.md index f9dc3c53..8beef879 100644 --- a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/intro.md +++ b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/intro.md @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Stories are as bound to time as we are, and all we can do is steal back a bit of God appears to Job and his friends and expounds on the fact that none of them do — nor indeed can — possibly understand the ways in which he works. They're not just mysterious, they're vast and incomprehensible. This makes the most sense in a panentheistic view. If He is outside time, then, from our point of view, those ways stretch both forwards and back. If they envelop and pervade all things tangible and intangible, then they are beyond even our causal domain. - Even in a grounded, Jahwist, immediate and physical view of God[^intro-exist] (He is, after all, there in the form of a whirlwind), his entrance comes off as bizarre and unnerving. He passes through the physical plane as the Sphere does through the Square's planar existence. Even in so physical a form, He proves His very incomprehensibility. + Even in a grounded, Jahwist, immediate and physical view of God (He is, after all, there in the form of a whirlwind), his entrance comes off as bizarre and unnerving. He passes through the physical plane as the Sphere does through the Square's planar existence. Even in so physical a form, He proves His very incomprehensibility. These interpretations are doing a lot of heavy lifting, however. They accept at face value Job's capitulation in chapter 40, where, after being thoroughly excoriated by no less than God Himself, he says, "Look, I am worthless. What can I say back to You?" (Job 40:4, Alter) and "I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but will proceed no further." (Job 40:5, NRSV)