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They mean it is the uncle, but they generalise and say it is \"the man.\" The father is not the \"man\"; they know him too well to call him \"man.\" In this way earlier religious use of language hid some things which they didn't want to express outwardly because one had the inner reaction of profanity, and so it was stated as a generalization, like also in the first line of St John's Gospel, \"in the beginning was the Word.\" However, one doesn't mean the word which actually stands there but one calls it something which has been picked out, a singular \"Word.\" It was after all something extraordinary, this \"Word.\" There are as many words as there are men, but children said, \"the man,\" and so one didn't say what was meant in St John's Gospel, but instead one said, \"the Word.\" The word in this case was Jahveh, so that St John's Gospel would say: \"In the primal beginnings was Jahveh,\" so one doesn't say \"God,\" but \"the Word.\"","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. 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