El is no man who would fail,
no human who would show change of heart.
Would he say and not perform
would he speak and not fulfill it? (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3
vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 1:564)
EL is no man. The
monotheistic point briefly stated in the first oracle (verse 8) is here
expanded to a full-fledged theological proposition on God’s fixed intentions
that resist any human manipulation. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3
vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 1:564)
Further Reading:
Lynn
Wilder vs. Latter-day Saint (and Biblical) Theology on Divine Embodiment
