Saturday, December 1, 2012

Love in Deuteronomy

[I]n Deuteronomy "love" denotes "covenant commitment demonstrated in actions that serve the interests of the other person." This statement is revolutionary, since the notion of love is virtually absent from the vocabulary of divine-human relationships in the ancient orient.

--Daniel I. Block, Deuteronomy (NIV Application Commentary; Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2012), 144.

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