Where Heretics Find Footing the Answer Stands Beside Them

Rabbi Yochanan said: In every place where the heretics found grounds for unbelief, their refutation stands beside them. "Let us make man" (Genesis 1:26) — and immediately, "And God created man" (Genesis 1:27, in the singular). "Come, let us go down and there confound their language" (Genesis 11:7) — and "And the LORD came down to see the city" (Genesis 11:5, in the singular). "For there God was revealed to him" (Genesis 35:7, in the plural form) — "the God who answers me in the day of my distress" (Genesis 35:3, in the singular). "For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God whenever we call upon Him" (Deuteronomy 4:7). "Whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people" (2 Samuel 7:23). "Until thrones were set in place and the Ancient of Days took His seat" (Daniel 7:9).