The Bible's contribution to our social concern can be powerfully clarifying and intensely effective; but this will depend on its not being applied immediately up against this concern and its objects.

Deuteronomy displays how Israel felt itself called by God to dissociate itself from other gods and to display in its loyalty to his will the faithfulness he had shown to them.

In the third chapter of Exodus we are told what the name of God intrinsically means, in such a way that we are to understand the biblical history from the name, rather than the name from the biblical history.