These images are of a terrific potency and they are of the very essence of Israel’s religion. Revelation has clothed itself in them and to seek to get rid of them, to demythologize the Old Testament, would be to refuse to make use of the very means by which we may hope to apprehend the ultimate reality.… They are the images whereby we arc enabled to apprehend a reality which consists of a succession of divine events, or better of a continuing divine purpose manifesting itself in events, leading up,