Perspectief 2015-30

Perspectief 40 Fred van Iersel responsibility towards Uriah and Bathsheba’. But, interestingly, this conclusion is left open to begin with – David may draw it himself. But when David has drawn his conclusion about the story, Nathan confronts him with a change from a merely hypothetical identification with the victim to a realistic identification with the perpetrator in this story: ‘you yourself are this man you are angry about!’ Now let us consider Nathan in his role as a military chaplain. I think this is legitimate. After all, David was not only a king, but also a general. I wonder what would happen today, in our armed forces, when a military chaplain spoke like this to a general. Would this be accepted? Or would this general say: mister chaplain, this is not what you have been