Chapter 2 God’s Jealousy for His Own Glory As discussed in the previous chapter, there is little place today for any positive idea of jealousy, whether it be human or divine. The thought of God possessing this troublesome emotion is hard for the contemporary mind to understand. Because jealousy invokes ideas of a fearful, capricious, and insecure husband who is needlessly suspicious of petty human rivalry, and then abuses his wife as a result, it is difficult for many to imagine this idea attributed
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