represent God as speaking through people like David (e.g. Acts 4:25). In Matthew 19:5 the words of Genesis 2:24, which are apparently the narrator’s comment on the creation of Eve, ‘Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh’, are attributed directly to God. These instances could be multiplied, so much so that B. B. Warfield was able to argue that the phrases ‘it says’, ‘Scripture says’ and ‘God says’ are virtually indistinguishable in meaning