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Article: Rugged performance; 'In any photograph taken prior to 1971, Wigon has less hair than now'.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2003
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Byline: VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH
SPEAKING as someone with a huge Cruden's Concordance (with a good tailor it doesn't show), nothing delights me more than picking out quotations from the Bible to demonstrate just how petty and vindictive the Old Testament God could be. Among His many misdemeanours, He made the residents of Topheth "eat the flesh of their sons and daughters" (Jeremiah 19:9), permitted the pregnant women of Tirzah to be "ripped up" (2 Kings 15:16), and when David had the temerity to organise a census in Israel, responded by killing 70,000 men (1 Chronicles 21:14).
But for sheer small-minded spite, surely nothing equals this passage about Elisha ...