Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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"Uncanny Metaphors: What do Eyelids, Lions, and Midwives have to do with God?"

Metaphors function as a way to explain what something is like by bringing two ideas together; however, some are employed more often to the exclusion of others. In this ProvTalk, Macumber spotlights three lesser-known biblical metaphors for God: the eyelid, the lion, and the midwife.