"And so to the second thread suggested by today's plant, namely the 'True Milk' of the Word: 'Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk' (1 Peter 2:2).
Mary, Elizabeth and Zechariah certainly did. Hippolytus (died 235) elaborates upon Peter's text in chapter 9 of his 'Treatise against the Heresy of Noetus'. We must, he says, look at things as God has chosen to reveal them in Scripture. For prior to the beginning of the revelation within it, the Word had only been visible to God. Now, with the Incarnation, the world will see him too and be saved. 'The Word is the mind of God shown forth as his Son.' This is the God of the law and the prophets, who spoke by the Holy Spirit and proclaimed God's purpose and will. In Scripture we find continual and enduring evidence of God's desire that we should believe and that we should glorify his Son, and of his will to bestow the Holy Spirit. Then let us believe in him, let us glorify him, and let us receive him.
'O Emmanuel, O God with us, our King and Law-giver; whom all peoples await and their salvation, come and save us, Lord, our God'."
copyright Jane Mossendew 2002
2 comments:
Dear Jane,
This post and the previous one I have particularly enjoyed and will think over. Thank you so much for them.
In Christo,
Anthony B.
Anthony:
Thank you! I will try to put up something this afternoon which I hope you will like.
Apeaceful and blessed Christmas to you and yours.
J
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