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The Word
Embodied
John Kavanaugh,
S. J.
Being
Saved by God’s Kind Favor
We would love to point to our successes, our virtues and improvements,
our earnestness in trying so hard, our ardent confessions or even our nine first
Fridays. But it is not our own doing, this salvation. It is not a result of our
effort.
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Historical Cultural
Context
John J. Pilch
The
World’s Darkness
Nicodemus seems to have pondered and perhaps even pursued
his interest in Jesus further, no doubt in discussion with others in typically
Mediterranean, group-centered fashion.
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Thoughts from the
Early Church
Bede
It was good for the people who
grumbled against the Lord to be prostrated by the bites of serpents, for this
outward scourge would make them realize how much inward damage they suffered
because of their grumbling.
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Scripture
In Depth
Reginald H. Fuller
The very sight of Christ lifted up on the cross has power to bring men and
women to faith and repentance, just as the contemplation of the serpent lifted
up on the pole by Moses was able to heal the Israelites who had
been bitten by fiery serpents.
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