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Redemptive Reversals and the Ironic Overturning of Human Wisdom is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible is full of ironic situations in which God overturns the world’s wisdom by doing the opposite of what is expected. In this new volume from respected New Testament scholar G. K. Beale, readers will see how God’s pattern of divine irony is exhibited in both judgment and salvation, finding its greatest expression in Jesus’s triumph over death through death on a cross. God has designed...

will hide from the presence of the Lamb at his second coming (Rev. 6:15–16), so Adam and Eve “hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God” as he entered the garden to judge them (Gen. 3:8).6 Not only was Adam’s delinquent judgment of Satan ironically turned into his own judgment, but now he who had been commissioned by God to “subdue and rule over everything that moves on the earth” was subdued and ruled over by the creeping serpent, to whom Adam had delivered his crown. And he who was to rule
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