The Scriptural God has no representative statue, no temple and no earthly city. As such, he is unique among other deities of the ancient near east; they are made by the hands of men, they reside in temples made of stone, set in fortified cities and governed by a king who, like the statue, is the representative of the deity, his plenipotentiary on earth. By comparison, the Scriptural God seems like an anti-god. He is present among his people exclusively through his word of instruction, his Torah.
The heaviness, the weight of this God is to be found not in a statue, but rather in his statutes.
References
כְּב֣וֹד - ke-bowd - δόξης (Greek) glory; weight, heaviness
ὑποστάσεως - hypostasis - substance; something that stands under or supports something
χαρακτὴρ - charaktēr - a graver, character, imprint, or expression
Exodus 13:21-22; 16:10
Isaiah 53:6-12
Mark 14:36
Philippians 2:5-10
Hebrews 1:1-4, 13 7:28; 8:1; 10:12; 12:1-2
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