God, the Mother Hen (8:30)
“How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!” Jerusalem has killed the prophets, the ones who were calling it into a future. It stoned those God sent to bring it life. Jerusalem here is a metaphor for the ways in which we are blind and deaf to the promise, the ways in which we do not keep open to our future.
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