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The Word
Embodied
John Kavanaugh,
S. J.
Prophetic Living
We reject not only the prophets around us. We reject the prophet within. This
is the repression of the prophetic and heroic impulse of that person who is most
ordinary and familiar to us: one’s very self.
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Historical Cultural
Context
John J. Pilch
Honor
Where could a person born to a manual artisan gain such astounding
wisdom? Even more, how could an artisan presumably busy at his craft ever obtain
such wisdom? “And they took offense at him.”
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Thoughts
from the
Early Church
Symeon the New Theologian
He ate, he drank, he slept, he sweated, and he grew weary. He did everything
other people do ... For anyone to recognize him in that
human body, and to believe that he was the God who made heaven and earth and
everything in them was very exceptional.
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Scripture
In Depth
Reginald H. Fuller
Paul does not complain
about [his thorn in the flesh] but uses it positively. It brings home to him that the grace of God,
and only that, is all he needs to carry out his apostolic labors.
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