flesh Emphatic; it cannot endure immediate contact with spirit (Isaiah 31:3).

the living God Rather, a living God, cp. Deuteronomy 4:33. The phrase always occurs in the O.T. without the article even when as in 1 Samuel 17:26; 1 Samuel 17:36, and Jeremiah 23:36 it is theliving God who is meant. In Jeremiah 10:10 it is indefinite as here. These are all the instances of this form. Kindred forms in Joshua 3:10 indefinite; Hosea 2:1; 2 Kings 19:4; 2 Kings 19:16 definite.

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