Archive for the ‘Psalm 110’ Tag
Above: David and Goliath
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Judgment and Mercy
OCTOBER 17, 2021
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Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
—The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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1 Samuel 17:1-49 or Jeremiah 32:1-15
Psalm 110
Romans 11:22-36
Luke 16:19-31
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[Yahweh] smote kings in the day of his wrath,
he routed nations;
he heaped corpses high,
He smote heads across a vast terrain.
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The key term for this post comes from Romans 11:22–
the kindness and severity of God,
as The Revised English Bible (1989) renders that verse. That is another way of saying “judgment and mercy.” That which we call judgment or wrath of God is frequently the proverbial chickens coming home to roost. As logicians remind us,
If x, then y.
That formula can also work so that y is positive.
One can draw a variety of lessons from these readings. The lessons include:
- Never be insensitive to human suffering. (Luke 16)
- Never think that other people exist to do one’s bidding. (Luke 16)
- Never forget that one is vulnerable, regardless of how imposing one may be or seem. (1 Samuel 17)
- Never oppress. (1 Samuel 17)
- Never think oneself wiser than one is. (Romans 11)
- Never lose hope, regardless of how dark the times are or seem to be. (Jeremiah 32)
After all, God is just/righteous. Divine judgment and mercy, balanced, are expressions of God’s justice/righteousness.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
APRIL 28, 2020 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF JAROSLAV VAJDA, U.S. LUTHERAN MINISTER, HYMN TRANSLATOR, AND HYMN WRITER
THE FEAST OF SAINT JOZEF CEBULA, ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST AND MARTYR, 1941
THE FEAST OF SAINT PAMPHILIUS OF SULMONA, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP AND ALMSGIVER
THE FEAST OF SAINT PETER CHANEL, PROTOMARTYR OF OCEANIA, 1841
THE FEAST OF WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW, EPISCOPAL ATTORNEY, THEOLOGIAN, AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST
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https://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/judgment-and-mercy-part-xviii/
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Above: The New Jerusalem
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Daniel and Revelation, Part III: The Proper Center
NOVEMBER 24-26, 2023
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Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
–The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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The Assigned Readings:
Daniel 4:1-37/3:31-4:34 (November 24)
Protestant versification varies from the Jewish, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox pattern in places.
Daniel 5:1-30 (November 25)
Daniel 6:1-28/5:31-6:29 (November 26)
Protestant versification varies from the Jewish, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox pattern in places.
Psalm 110 (Morning–November 24)
Psalm 62 (Morning–November 25)
Psalm 13 (Morning–November 26)
Psalms 66 and 23 (Evening–November 24)
Psalms 73 and 8 (Evening–November 25)
Psalms 36 and 5 (Evening–November 26)
Revelation 21:1-8 (November 24)
Revelation 21:9-22 (November 25)
Revelation 22:1-21 (November 26)
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The king at your right hand, O Lord,
shall smite down kings in the day of his wrath.
In all his majesty, he shall judge among the nations,
smiting heads over all the wide earth.
He shall drink from the brook beside the way;
therefore shall he lift high his head.
–Psalm 110:5-7, The Book of Common Prayer (2004)
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The fictional stories in Daniel 4-6 are morality tales about kings who opposed God, sometimes out of hubris. Two of the three med bad ends; the other changed his ways. Hubris, of course, is that which goes before the fall. It constitutes making oneself one’s own idol.
Glory, of course, belongs to God. Thus, in Revelation 21-22, God and the Lamb (Jesus) are the Temple and the origin of light. This is beautiful and metaphorical imagery which should influence how we who call ourselves Christians order our priorities. God–specifically Christ–should occupy the focal point of our attentions and affections.
We are, as a psalmist said, like grass–grass which bears the Image of God and is slightly lower than the angels–but grass nevertheless. So may we think neither too highly nor too lowly of ourselves and each other.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JUNE 5, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL AND SENATOR
THE FEAST OF SAINT BONIFACE OF MAINZ, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP
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http://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/daniel-and-revelation-part-iii-the-proper-center/
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Above: Parable of the Wicked Servant, by Domenico Fetti
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Deuteronomy and Matthew, Part XVIII: Forgiveness, Divine and Human
OCTOBER 27, 2023
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Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
–The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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The Assigned Readings:
Deuteronomy 29:1-29
Psalm 110 (Morning)
Psalms 66 and 23 (Evening)
Matthew 18:21-35
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God demanded complete fidelity in Deuteronomy 29. Hence there was no forgiveness for the sin of idolatry, turning away from the covenant. If I understand the Hebrew Scriptures correctly, idolatry led to destruction, which mercy usually followed. The consequences of actions played out; that constituted judgment. Then God granted the surviving remnant another chance. And, if I understand the New Testament correctly, the only unpardonable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. In textual context the unpardonable sin is the inability to distinguish good from evil. Perhaps blasphemy against the Holy Spirit and the abandonment of the covenant are the same thing.
I, as a student of the Scriptures, detect recurring themes. One of them is that God’s forgiveness of our sins depends partially on our forgiveness of those who have wronged us. As God forgives us, we ought to forgive others.
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so will you be judged, and whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt to you.
–Matthew 7:1-2, The Revised English Bible
In the parable from Matthew 18 the forgiven servant had no way of repaying the enormous debt. Yet he refused to forgive smaller debts owed to him. So his former creditor, the king, did to him (the servant) what the servant had done to others.
Forgive us the wrong we have done,
as we have forgiven those who have wronged us.
–Matthew 6:12, The Revised English Bible
then
For, if you forgive others the wrongs they have done, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive the wrongs you have done.
–Matthew 6:14-15, The Revised English Bible
The paraphrase of the Lord’s Prayer from A New Zealand Prayer Book (1989) contains the following line:
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.—page 181
I like the verb “absorb” in context. We ought not to carry those hurts around like luggage. Yes, they will inform us. We might remember them for a long time, but they need not transform into grudges.
I have struggled with forgiving others. I still do. Yes, I have the free will (sometimes) to forgive those who have sinned against me, but letting go is oddly more difficult than hanging on to those grievances. Yet letting go leads to a lighter spiritual load.
Fortunately, grace is present and abundant. I feel like St. Paul the Apostle:
I discover this principle, then: that when I want to do right, only wrong is within my reach. In my inmost self I delight in the law of God, but I perceive in my outward actions a different law, fighting against the law that my mind approves, and making me a prisoner under the law of sin which controls my conduct. Wretched creature that I am, who is there to rescue me from this state of death? Who but God? Thanks be to him through Jesus Christ our Lord! To sum up then: left to myself I serve God’s law with my mind, but with my unspiritual nature I serve the law of sin.
–Romans 7:21-25, The Revised English Bible
At least one who has that struggle is not committing the unpardonable sin. Having a spiritual struggle is not necessarily negative; it might even be mostly positive, for it can lead to a stronger state.
I recall confessing a particular sin–inability to forgive despite my knowledge of the imperative of doing so—to my priest, Beth Long, once. People—some perfidious—have wronged me. Beth counseled me to forgive myself. The trauma would wash out of my spiritual system in time and I would, by grace, find the ability to forgive. Those men’s deeds were perfidious; forgiving them did not change what they did. But it did change me.
We human beings are weak, but at least we do not need to rely on our strength to do what God has called us to do and to become what God has called us to become. Thanks be to God!
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
MAY 8, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF SAINT BENEDICT II, BISHOP OF ROME
THE FEAST OF DAME JULIAN OF NORWICH, SPIRITUAL WRITER
THE FEAST OF SAINT MAGDALENA OF CANOSSA, FOUNDER OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY AND THE SONS OF CHARITY
THE FEAST OF SAINT PETER OF TARENTAISE, ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP
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http://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/deuteronomy-and-matthew-part-xviii-forgiveness-divine-and-human/
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Above: Design Drawing for Stained-Glass Window Showing the Sermon on the Mount
From J. & R. Lamb Studios, 1857-1999
Image Source = Library of Congress
Deuteronomy and Matthew, Part II: Acting Confidently in God
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
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Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
–The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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The Assigned Readings:
Deuteronomy 1:19-36
Psalm 110 (Morning)
Psalms 66 and 23 (Evening)
Matthew 5:21-48
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But in truth God has heart me;
he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
–Psalm 66:17, The Book of Common Prayer (1979)
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Psalm 66:17 reflects confidence in God. Yet Moses, speaking in Deuteronomy 1:19-36, notes instances of a lack of confidence in God. The TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures translation refers to sulking and complaining, in fact. These are not the responses of confident people. No, they indicate fear.
Matthew 5:21-48, using culturally specific examples, encourages confident (in God) responses to others. We can forgive others and not seek vengeance, for example, when he have confidence in God. We can love our enemies when we leave divine justice to God, knowing that God might forgive, not avenge. And we can treat others fairly and with their best interests in mind when we are confident of God’s provision for us.
When we act out of fear we are more likely to sin against God and each other, to behave cruelly or at least apathetically. Then we harm ourselves also. Then we injure the image of God not only in others but in ourselves. And that is wrong.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
APRIL 20, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF SAINTS AMATOR OF AUXERRE AND GERMANUS OF AUXERRE, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS; SAINT MAMERTINUS OF AUXERRE, ROMAN CATHOLIC ABBOT; AND SAINT MARCIAN OF AUXERRE, ROMAN CATHOLIC MONK
THE FEAST OF JOHANNES BUGENHAGEN, GERMAN LUTHERAN PASTOR
THE FEAST OF SAINT MARCELLINUS OF EMBRUN, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP
THE FEAST OF OLAVUS AND LAURENTIUS PETRI, RENEWERS OF THE CHURCH
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http://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/deuteronomy-and-matthew-part-ii-acting-confidently-in-god/
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Above: Christ Pantocrator
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Radical Inclusion in Christ
SEPTEMBER 1-3, 2023
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Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
–The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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The Assigned Readings:
1 Kings 18:1-19 (September 1)
1 Kings 18:20-40 (September 2)
1 Kings 19:1-21 (September 3)
Psalm 110 (Morning–September 1)
Psalm 62 (Morning–September 2)
Psalm 13 (Morning–September 3)
Psalms 66 and 23 (Evening–September 1)
Psalms 73 and 8 (Evening–September 2)
Psalms 36 and 5 (Evening–September 3)
Ephesians 1:1-23 (September 1)
Ephesians 2:1-22 (September 2)
Ephesians 3:1-21 (September 3)
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What I have written briefly of this above will explain to you my knowledge of the mystery of Christ. This secret was hidden to past, generations of mankind, but it has now, buy the Spirit, been made plain to God’s consecrated messengers and prophets. It is simply this: that the gentiles are to be equal heirs with his chosen people, equal members and equal partners in God’s promise given by Christ Jesus through the gospel.
–Ephesians 3:4-6, J. B. Phillips, The New Testament in Modern English, Revised Edition (1972)
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The account from 1 Kings boils over with peril–for Obadiah, for Elijah, and for all those who worshiped Baal and other false gods. The body count is staggering–four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal in 18:40 and an undisclosed number of idol worshipers in 19:18. The underlying reason for hostility to many Gentiles in the Old Testament was that many Hebrews succumbed to Gentile false gods and cultic practices, thereby ceasing to be a light to the nations. But was a massacre the right way to shine positive light? Of course not!
There were, of course, as I have written in other posts, faithful Gentiles. Ruth comes to mind immediately. She even became an ancestor of David and Jesus. But she adopted the Hebrew religion.
That provides a nice segue into Ephesians. Paul or someone writing as Paul or revising dictations of an imprisoned Paul wrote of unity in Christ. In Christ God reconciled with people and brought about human unity. The church was (and is) the chosen instrument of this unity. In Christ, the great epistle says, all other divisions fall away. All of us in Christ are children of God, so we will receive a great inheritance.
This is grand and lofty theology. So why have we of organized Christianity turned on each other so often? Why have we even slaughtered each other sometimes? We do not understand. Or, if we do understand, we reject the message. We (broadly speaking) use God as a blunt weapon to marginalize those whom God has called “insiders”, so many who have thought of themselves as insiders have betrayed the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Inclusion in Christ is too radical a notion for many people to accept, for hurdles to jump through make us confortable. They provide labels which reassure many falsely. These labels are idols, in fact. But Jesus jumped through the hurdles and knocked them down; may we cease to re-erect them.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JANUARY 4, 2013 COMMON ERA
THE ELEVENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS
THE FEAST OF MIEP GIES, RIGHTEOUS GENTILE
THE FEAST OF SAINT DAVID I, KING OF SCOTLAND
THE FEAST OF GEORGE FOX, QUAKER FOUNDER
THE FEAST OF SAINT PAULINUS OF AQUILEIA, ROMAN CATHOLIC PATRIARCH
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http://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/radical-inclusion-in-christ/
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Above: Malta, July 29, 2001
Image Source = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1 Samuel and Acts, Part IX: If God Is For Us….
AUGUST 4-6, 2023
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Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
–The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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The Assigned Readings:
1 Samuel 18:10-30 (August 4)
1 Samuel 19:1-24 (August 5)
1 Samuel 20:1-23 (August 6)
Psalm 110 (Morning–August 4)
Psalm 62 (Morning–August 5)
Psalm 13 (Morning–August 6)
Psalms 66 and 23 (Evening–August 4)
Psalms 73 and 8 (Evening–August 5)
Psalms 36 and 5 (Evening–August 6)
Acts 27:27-44 (August 4)
Acts 28:1-15 (August 5)
Acts 28:16-31 (August 6)
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The readings from 1 Samuel and the Acts of the Apostles emphasize the positive. Yes, Saul tries to kill David, but the younger man escapes. David falls in love; surely that is positive. And Paul and his fellow prisoners survive a shipwreck. The story of Luke-Acts ends before Paul’s beheading; he is in Rome, teaching.
The unifying element in each narrative is that God was with the heroic figure. Yet bad things do happen to faithful people. Accounts of Christian martyrs confirm this fact. And August 6 is the Feast of the Transfiguration. After the Transfiguration our Lord and Savior traveled to Jerusalem for the fateful, final Passover week of his earthly life. But he emerged victorious on the other side, did he not?
I will not resolve the problem of why bad things happen to good people in this blog post. But I can make one definitive statement: It is better to suffer while on God’s side than to do so while not on God’s side.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
OCTOBER 14, 2012 COMMON ERA
PROPER 23: THE TWENTIETH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST, YEAR B
THE FEAST OF ALL CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES
THE FEAST OF SAMUEL ISAAC JOSEPH SCHERESCHEWSKY, EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF SHANGHAI
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http://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/1-samuel-and-acts-part-ix-if-god-is-for-us/
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Above: Othneil
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Judges and Acts, Part I: Identity and Tradition
JULY 7 AND 8, 2023
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Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
–The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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The Assigned Readings:
Judges 2:6-23 (July 7)
Judges 3:7-31 (July 8)
Psalm 110 (Morning–July 7)
Psalm 62 (Morning–July 8)
Psalms 66 and 23 (Evening–July 7)
Psalms 73 and 8 (Evening–July 8)
Acts 13:13-41 (July 7)
Acts 13:42-52 (July 8)
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Many of the Israelites had habitually short memories , for they fell back into idolatry. The prevention of the this was a major reason for repeating the stories of what God had done. Yet the majority of the people fell into idolatry. And, according to the Book of Judges, this led to Canaanite oppression of the Israelites. Periodically a judge–a chieftain–arose and delivered the people. Then the cycle repeated.
Paul, in Acts 13, recounted what God had done. In so doing he and his missionary companions converted many Jews and Gentiles. Paul and company also made enemies, so they had to move along. Those who opposed Paul and his partners probably considered themselves guardians of holy traditions, which their forebears had abandoned long before, in Judges 3.
Traditions can be tricky, for one should neither abandon a healthy tradition lightly nor ossify any tradition. No, traditions are properly living things. We human ought to adapt them to new circumstances and distinguish between what has outlived its usefulness and what ought to remain.
Paul challenged a version of Judaism which had adapted to a new reality while not embracing Hellenism. The precise circumstances which were current when the Law of Moses was new had ceased to exist. So, scholars asked, how ought Jews to live according to the Law of Moses in changed circumstances? Paul did not object to adaptation per se; no his innovation was to add atonement and justification via Jesus to the list of God’s mighty acts.
But place yourself, O reader, in the seat of one who opposed Paul’s message. What did Paul’s theology mean for Jewish identity–one based on remaining distinct–in the Hellenistic context? In this way Paul’s opponents at Antioch in Pisidia were in tune with the theology of the Book of Judges.
Questions of identity strike at a vulnerable spot for many people, including me. One can approach these questions positively or negatively, focusing on what and who one is rather than on what and who one is not.
I wonder how I would have responded to Paul and Barnabas had I been an observant Jew at Antioch in Pisidia. I suspect that I might have sided with my tradition and rejected Paul’s message. I would have been wrong in such a hypothetical situation. Where might you, O reader, have stood in this hypothetical situation? And where might your answer to this question lead you to go spiritually?
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JULY 27, 2012 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF WILLIAM REED HUNTINGTON, EPISCOPAL PRIEST
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http://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/judges-and-acts-part-i-identity-and-tradition/
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Above: St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church, Perry, Georgia, January 29, 2012
Image Source = Bill Monk, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
Proverbs and John, Part III: Wisdom and Jesus
JUNE 9-11, 2023
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Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning:
Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
–The Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 236
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The Assigned Readings:
Proverbs 8:1-21 (June 9)
Proverbs 8:22-38 (June 10)
Proverbs 9:1-18 (June 11)
Psalm 110 (Morning–June 9)
Psalm 62 (Morning–June 10)
Psalm 13 (Morning–June 11)
Psalms 66 and 23 (Evening–June 9)
Psalms 73 and 8 (Evening–June 10)
Psalms 36 and 5 (Evening–June 11)
John 12:36b-50 (June 9)
John 13:1-20 (June 10)
John 13:21-38 (June 11)
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I invite you, O reader, to compare and contrast the Proverbs readings to the prologue of the Gospel of John. You might notice the imagery of divine wisdom (personified as feminine) and how it influenced the imagery of the Word (Logos) of God in the Gospel of John. There is at least one major difference: wisdom is a divine creation; the Logos is not. (I am not an an Arian.) Yet theological cross-fertilization is evident.
Wisdom raises her voice from the topmost height and calls to all people. She encourages them to avoid folly and says,
For he who finds me finds life
And obtains favor from the LORD.
But he who misses me destroys himself;
All who hate me love death.
–Proverbs 8:35-36, TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures
And wisdom has st the table, offering food and wine. She continues:
The beginning of wisdom is fear of the LORD,
And knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
–Proverbs 9:10, TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures
Meanwhile, in John 12 and 13, Jesus models and encourages an attitude of service to God and of help for each other. I suspect that he did not intend to inspire an annoying song,
They’ll know we are Christians by our love,
with its few words repeated often, but at least the sentiment holds true. And the caution in John 12:47-50 sounds very much like Wisdom speaking of those who reject her.
Jesus is about to set a table in the Gospel of John. The Synoptic Gospels offer details about the Last Supper; the Gospel of John does not. No, that meal comes and goes early in Chapter 13. In the Synoptic Gospels the Last Supper is a Passover meal. Yet, as well-informed students of the New Testament know, the barely-mentioned Last Supper in the Fourth Gospel occurs before Passover. Jesus dies on Passover, so he is the Passover Lamb. The food and wine he offers us are his body and blood. I, as an Episcopalian, accept the language readily.
Wisdom raises her voice and invites all people to follow her precepts. She also sets a table. And Jesus offers himself to us and for us. May we obey, eat, and drink.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JULY 8, 2012 COMMON ERA
THE SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST, YEAR B
THE FEAST OF BETTY FORD, U.S. FIRST LADY AND ADVOCATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
THE FEAST OF ALBERT RHETT STUART, EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF GEORGIA
THE FEAST OF BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT, ANGLICAN BISHOP
THE FEAST OF SAINT GRIMWALD, ROMAN CATHOLIC ABBOT
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http://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/proverbs-and-john-part-iii-wisdom-and-jesus/
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