That is, if we read these violent divine portraits while exercising the same surface-penetrating faith we exercise when we come to embrace the crucified Nazarene as the definitive revelation of God, we’ll see how the sin-mirroring ugliness of these literary crucifixes bears witness to the sin-mirroring ugliness of the historical Crucifixion and how the beauty of the sin-bearing God behind these literary crucifixes bears witness to the beauty of the sin-bearing God in the historical Crucifixion.