it. Yet all language about God is necessarily anthropomorphic, and the question of the meaning of such language has been distorted by an uncritical acceptance of the Greek notion of divine impassibility. Thus the meaning of God’s jealousy must be sought in God’s character as the holy One, and it is perhaps a measure of the love and esteem in which he holds creation that the rebellion of a creature infinitely lower than himself could be said to occasion jealousy in him. As with