 | R. Norman Whybray - 1989 - 90 Seiten
...fate of the righteous minority in Sodom, when Abraham boldly challenged God: 'Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?' (Gen. 18.23-25). In that case God was persuaded to change his mind. Elsewhere the... | |
 | G. Peter Fleck - 1993 - 140 Seiten
..."Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? . . . That be far from thee to do ... to slay the righteous with the wicked. . . . Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" With these words Abraham takes the initiative. He reminds the Lord that he, the Judge... | |
 | Patrick D. Miller - 1994 - 488 Seiten
...prominent ingredient. Abraham appeals to the justice and righteousness of God: "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?. . .Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?" (Gen 18:23, 25). Moses does the same when — at Korah's rebellion — he asks... | |
 | William Gerber - 1994 - 260 Seiten
...[despite] the fifty righteous that are therein? "That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked . . . : Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" In the ensuing debate with Abraham, God conceded that if there were fifty righteous,... | |
 | William Gerber - 1995 - 166 Seiten
...thou also destroy ... the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do .... to slay the righteous with the wicked: ... Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? Clearly the writer of that story deemed what is right to be independent of what God... | |
 | Frederick Brotherton Meyer, F. B. Meyer - 1996 - 196 Seiten
...also destroy the righteous with the wicked?... That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked?... Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (vv. 23, 25). There is an infinite interest in this. It is as if the patriarch looked... | |
 | Arthur P. Mendel - 1999 - 364 Seiten
...there are fifty righteous within the city. ... That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked. . .. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do justly?" (Genesis 18:24-25). Next to these two momentous religious innovations (worshiping... | |
 | Richard H. Schwartz - 2001 - 260 Seiten
...Abraham even pleads with God to practice justice: "That be far from You to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked. ..shall not the Judge of all the earth do justly?" (Genesis 18:25) Rabbi Emanuel Rackman points out that Judaism teaches a special kind... | |
 | Eliezer Berkovits - 2002 - 436 Seiten
...ashes." Yet he does speak, and in the clearest terms: "Far be it from you to act in this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked... shall not the judge of all the earth do justly?"14 It is from God that the patriarch derives the strength to face him; it is God who... | |
 | Eliezer Berkovits - 2004 - 224 Seiten
...ashes." Yet he does speak, and in the clearest terms: "Far be it from you to act in this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked. . . shall not the judge of all the earth do justly?"14 It is from God that the patriarch derives the strength to face him; it is God who... | |
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Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt Thou also destroy and .not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein ? That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked. Shall not the judge... 
