The creepy connubial Christ talk of the New Testament gets some of its inspiration from OT prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah

 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

-- Isaiah 54:5

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

-- Jeremiah 3:20

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

-- Jeremiah 31:21

Thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited

 

 

 

 

The Caribbees were wont to geld their children,

on purpose to fat and eat them.

-- John Locke