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A Biblical Scholar's Note on Anscombe's Review of Lewis's Reflections on the Psalms

A Biblical Scholar's Note on Anscombe's Review of Lewis's Reflections on the Psalms A Biblical Scholar’s Note on Anscombe’s Review of Lewis’s Reflections on the Psalms Matthew Wiseman As both a student of Biblical Poetry and a Roman Catholic, my objections to Lewis’s book are substantially the same as Anscombe’s. Lewis is repulsed by expressions of wrath and retribution in the Psalter, but ignores the fact that much the same language, even the same texts, are used in the New Testament. Lewis points to Psalm 69.23 as ‘the refinement of malice’, but makes no note of St Paul’s use of the same verse in Romans 11.9ff. He seems not to take into account the fact that perhaps the most dreadful cursing of all is found, not in the mouth of the Psalmist, but in the mouth of God, for instance through Ezekiel: ‘Therefore the fathers will devour the sons in your midst, and the sons will devour their fathers, and I will do justice among you, and I will scatter all your remnants to all the winds’ (Ezekiel 5.10). And even this dire utterance of judgment pales in comparison to the extensive imprecations against violators of the Covenant spelled out in Deuteronomy 28.15ff, again in the divine voice. It seems that Lewis’s http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Inklings Studies Edinburgh University Press

A Biblical Scholar's Note on Anscombe's Review of Lewis's Reflections on the Psalms

Wiseman, Matthew
Journal of Inklings Studies , Volume 9 (2): 3 – Oct 1, 2019
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A Biblical Scholar’s Note on Anscombe’s Review of Lewis’s Reflections on the Psalms Matthew Wiseman As both a student of Biblical Poetry and a Roman Catholic, my objections to Lewis’s book are substantially the same as Anscombe’s. Lewis is repulsed by expressions of wrath and retribution in the Psalter, but ignores the fact that much the same language, even the same texts, are used in the New Testament. Lewis points to Psalm 69.23 as ‘the refinement of malice’, but makes no note of St Paul’s use of the same verse in Romans 11.9ff. He seems not to take into account the fact that perhaps the most dreadful cursing of all is found, not in the mouth of the Psalmist, but in the mouth of God, for instance through Ezekiel: ‘Therefore the fathers will devour the sons in your midst, and the sons will devour their fathers, and I will do justice among you, and I will scatter all your remnants to all the winds’ (Ezekiel 5.10). And even this dire utterance of judgment pales in comparison to the extensive imprecations against violators of the Covenant spelled out in Deuteronomy 28.15ff, again in the divine voice. It seems that Lewis’s

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Published: Oct 1, 2019

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