Blotting-out imagery uses erased writing or removed records to picture forgiveness, judgment, exclusion, cancelled guilt, or the removal of a name or charge before God.
Blotting-out imagery uses erased writing or removed records to picture forgiveness, judgment, exclusion, cancelled guilt, or the removal of a name or charge before God.
A record-removal motif in which blotting out, wiping, erasing, or cancelling a written charge signifies forgiven sin, destroyed memory, excluded name, covenant curse, or the removal of hostile legal accusation.
These examples show how Blotting Out, Erasing, and Removed-Record Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek
Judgment is pictured as the removal of Amalek’s remembrance.
blot me... out of thy book
Intercession uses the image of being erased from God’s book.
blot them out with the bitter water
Written curses are physically erased into the ordeal water.
blot out their name from under heaven
Judgment is pictured as removing Israel’s name from public remembrance.
blot out his name from under heaven
Covenant curse is expressed as name-erasure.
wiping it, and turning it upside down
Jerusalem’s judgment is pictured like wiping a dish clean.
blot out my transgressions
David asks for sin to be removed from the record by mercy.
blot out all mine iniquities
Forgiveness is pictured as erasure of written guilt.
I... blot out thy transgressions
The LORD himself removes transgressions for his own sake.
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances
Christ’s cross is pictured as cancelling the hostile written charge.
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