Every word we speak, Derrida argues, wanders off on its own, and we can’t protect or control it.
True enough with regard to human words. But God’s Word is a living Person, the eternal Son, a Word equal to the speaker with the resources to fend for Himself. This Word, though sent to a far country, never wanders from His Father.
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