ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY EDUCATION NETWORK EXODUS DR. DAVID ADAMS #43 Captioning Provided By: Caption First, Inc. 10 E. 22nd Street Suite 304 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. *** >> You were talking before about the discomfort that some may feel with the warrior imagery from the first part of the poem. But don't we also have that kind of imagery in the second part of the poem, as well, in Verses 14 and 15, for example? >> We do. But it's much less graphic in those verses than it is in the earlier part of the poem. The verses speak -- in the second half that is to say -- speak more about the terror that Yahweh's actions cause for his enemies than the actual violence of the conflict itself. I think the important thing to notice here, as we indicated earlier, is that the focus of the poem has shifted in the second part of the poem. The focus is not on the revelation of Yahweh as redeemer anymore and that connection of Yahweh with redeemer where we get the victor in battle theme connected. But the focus in the second half of the poem is now on Yahweh -- we can almost say Yahweh as pastor. That is to say Yahweh as shepherd. Yahweh as one who leads his people in his grace and mercy to the place that he's prepared for them. So the theme verse of the first part of the poem is either Verse 2, which says, "The Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation. This is my God and I will praise him. My father's God and I will exalt him." Or as I prefer, Verse 11, "Who is like you, oh, Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?" That's the theme of the first part of the poem. The theme of the second part of the poem by contract is clearly Verse 13 where we read "You lead in your stedfast love" -- your kesid -- "the people whom you have redeemed. You will guide them by your strength to your holy abode." Now, notice the change in emphasis between those two? On the first one the emphasis is on God's strength and power in relation to his enemies. In the second half -- the theme verse of the second half of the poem, the emphasis is on God's kesid, upon his grace and mercy. Expressed not in relation to his enemies, but in relation to his people. Now, as you pointed out, there's a little bit of carryover in the second part of the poem because God as he leads his people, his enemies run in terror before him. But the shift in the poem is pretty dramatic. And the emphasis is clearly changed between the first part of the poem and the second part of the poem. *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ***