No, i actually was not familiar with the phrase “reverential periphrasis”, but i am aware of that the Bible often uses euphemisms.
I am fearful of sounding irreverent, and sometimes my humorous side needs to be more tempered by that.
As regards the analogous use of male/female relations, i have expressed one aspect of this as being akin to God’s revelation of Himself. That is, a woman’s naked beauty is not for public consumption (and the kind of bait you use largely determines your manner of catch, and she ought not to cast not her pearls before swine), but for her husband, who has entered into covenant of committed cherishing love with her, and to consummate in mutual love (nakedness=vulnerability, requires trust).
To demand this and or marital relations with her before that bond, is in essence a form of rape. Likewise, those who, seeking a show or to justify unbelief, demand God do some miracle before they will believe.
What God does is reveal Himself, like a virtuous women, in a veiled form, which invites seeking, and which seeking prepares the heart for receiving. And only those who fear/reverence the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, will He reveal His covenant, (Ps. 25:14) and only to those who enter into covenant with Him will He reveal His hidden glory. (Ps. 63:1,2; Jn. 17:24; Acts 7:55)
And the more our eyes be single, then the more our bodes shall be full of light, (Mt. 6:22) and corporately so, as the church should shine as Moses did, (Ex. 34:29) as the light of the world, preaching His law, heard or read, but written upon the heart. (2Cor. 3:3)
VERY good stuff.
I think one day God will rein in my silliness. But for the time being, I mean to enjoy it. I trust He currently reigns in my silliness.
Your pun for the day.