Passage: “My steadfast husband tore his hair in private. Without the chief’s blessing he could have no congregation. Nathan burned. There is no other way to say it. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of all, he declared to the sky, squinting up at God and demanding justice. I held him in my arms at night and saw parts of his soul turn to ash. Then I saw him reborn, with a stone in place of his heart. Nathan would accept no more compromises. God was testing him like Job, he declared, and the point of that particular parable was the Job had done no wrong to begin with. Nathan felt it had been a mistake to bend his will, in any ways, on the subject of river baptism; to listen at all to Tatu Ndu or even the rantings of Mam Tatabe. It had all been a test of Nathan’s strength, and God was displeased with the outcome. He would not fail again.”
Tatu Ndu and Mama Tataba are trying to compromise with Nathan, exclaiming how the people of their tribe will not partake in the event of river baptism because there was a crocodile killing in such waters not too long ago. Such a request seems perfectly reasonable, but Nathan is an extremely stubborn man and won’t listen to anything but the strict guidelines he obeys. I feel as though Nathan is using the Bible verses to come up with reasons to continue acting in such a way. He has no mind set of reason, and no heart to fight with his ruthlessness.
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