After finishing last week's post on C.S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew, where I discussed The Deplorable Word, I realized I missed the most obvious symbolism of it. The evil expressed by the act of killing everyone except the speaker of The Deplorable Word is the opposite of the mercy and grace of God. Evil would kill everyone in order to hold onto a dominion consisting of no living thing, whereas God's love would be shown by Him laying down His own life in order to make eternal life available to everyone.
Posted by Joel Fuhrmann at March 6, 2005 09:49 PM