26. "I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents" (Deut. xxxii. 24). This exhibits a more fiendish spirit than that of Nero.
27. "I myself will fight against you in anger and fury and great wrath" (Jer. xxi. 5). "Anger and fury disclose a weak and unbalanced mind" (Publius Syrus).
23. "I will laugh at your calamity" (Prov. 1. 20). "Only brutal savages can be happy while others are miserable" (Publius Syrus).
20. "I frame evil against you" (Jer. xviii. 11). Who, then, can deny that God is the author of evil?
30. The spirit said, "I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets" (1 Kings xxii. 22). Of course, then, all the lies they told would be his, and not theirs.
31. "If I whet my glittering sword" (Deut. xxxii. 41). What a frightful picture for the all-loving Father!
32. "Spare them not, but destroy both men and beasts, infant and suckling" (1 Sam. xv. 8). We would neither worship such a God on earth, or dwell with him in heaven.
83. "He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places" (Lam. ill. 10). Think of the God of the universe descending from heaven, and crouching in ambush, like bears and lions, to spring upon the unsuspecting traveler! The tendency of such a thought is to weaken both moral and intellectual growth.
31. He will "cry like a travailing woman" (Isa. xlii. 14).
35. He is full of vengeance and wrath, and is furious (Nah. 1. 2). A savage monster. Who would worship such a God?