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From Survival to Frolicking With a Leviathan

From Survival to Frolicking With a Leviathan

Even chthonic beasts like Leviathan can frolic.

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Eugene Terekhin
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When I first read in Psalm 104:26 about Leviathan, my next question was, “If this is some сhthonic monster out of the abyss, the word ‘frolic’ doesn’t seem to fit here.”

“There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.”

However, I liked the sound of the word “frolic.” I could vividly imagine what it was like to frolic. Som…

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