(1985:95; cf. 1988:134) describes this large set of common features as ‘a community of relations’. Once we speak of shared images and feelings, the similarities between the vehicle and tenor become extensive; according to some theorists of metaphor, they are infinite (Davidson, 1979:44; Booth, 1979b:174). This study can just begin to explore them. I have suggested that ‘God is king’ is a live biblical metaphor which is best explicated by examining the common elements shared by the biblical conceptions