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The Word
Embodied
John Kavanaugh,
S. J.
Unmasking the Great Deception
Adam and Eve, we are told, had almost everything. The only drawback was the fact that they were creatures of limit. They were good, but not God.
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Historical Cultural
Context
John J. Pilch
Spirits
When the voice from heaven identified Jesus at his baptism as “my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased,” all the spirits heard this compliment. Every Mediterranean native knows what must and will happen next.
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Thoughts from the
Early Church
Gregory Nazianzen
If the tempter tries to overthrow us through our greed,
showing us at one glance all the kingdoms of the world—as
if they belonged to him—and demanding that we fall down
and worship him, we should despise him, for we know him to be a penniless impostor.
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Scripture
In Depth
Reginald H. Fuller
As Adam began a history of fallen humankind characterized by sin and death, so Christ began a new history of humankind characterized by acquittal, life, and righteousness.
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