Right, Bishop Tom, as you write, “and looking upon Jesus we see him who ‘was like unto us in everything except sin’ ”.  Pope Pius 12, in his Encyclical Letter: ”Divino Afflante Spiritu”, sept.30, 1943 brought about a revolutionary change in the Roman Catholic Church.  In this letter Pius XII demands that Catholic biblical scholars apply all the scientific means and the new studies of ancient languages (cf. the Rosetta Stone --”stele” -- found in 1799) in order to clarify the real meaning behind our Sacred Scriptures.  That meant terminating 2,000 years of purely literal acceptation of the S.S.  So now we can understand and apply such concepts as PERSONIFICATION and HYPOSTATIZE  Here we see the “PERSONIFICATION” of God’s attributes -- active power, active wisdom, active loving care, etc. as so often found in the First Testament of the Bible.  This was a very common “form of speech” in the minds and cultures of many ancient peoples.