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Adad. We now have, not a recounting of past triumphs, but only covert allusions to the events of Sinai and Canaan. The prophet simply considers the present distress, and seeks and receives a theophany of deliverance. 3. The mountain home of Yahweh is based on the memory of Sinai. The first couplet is imitated from Dt. 33:2.—4. The rays proceed from his side, not hand, as in RV. The older Babylonian art often represented solar deities with rays proceeding from the body. And there is the hiding of
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