| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you? (Deut. 32:6) God refers to Israel as his firstborn son, which suggests that he sees himself in the position of Father. (Ex. 4:22) And this concept is touchingly repeated in Hosea 11:1, a scripture which the evangelist Matthew uses as a prophecy of Jesus: When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. (C
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