The Nations

The Nations
Genesis 9: 26- 10: 20

There is a movie called Antonia’s Line set in a village in the Netherlands at the end of the Second World War. A garrison of Nazi troops is stationed in the village; the village’s own men are all missing, fighting in the Allied Armies or working in the resistance or dead. One of the Nazi soldiers rapes a teenage girl in the village, and its matriarch delivers a bloodcurdling curse on him that declares the terrible judgment that will come upon him. And the judgment duly does...