41. Yea, they turned back. Their hearts sighed for
Egypt and its fleshpots. They turned to their old ways again and again, after
they had been scourged out of them. Full of twists and turns, they never kept
the straight path. And tempted God. As far as in them lay they tempted
him. His ways were good, and they in desiring to have them altered tempted God.
Before they would believe in him they demanded signs, defying the Lord to do
this and that, and acting as if he could be cajoled into being the minion of
their lusts. Let us not tempt Christ lest we also be destroyed. And limited the Holy One of Israel. Doubted his power and so limited him, dictated to
his wisdom and so did the same. To chalk out a path for God is arrogant
impiety. It is profanity itself to say to him, “Thou shalt do this or that, or I will not worship thee.”
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