For
the fifth day of Christmas, I have another quote from William Temple who I
quoted on the third day of Christmas. There he said that Jesus, as the
incarnation of the eternal Word, is the self-utterance of God. Here he offers more of what that means:
The life of Christ is a momentary
manifestation of eternal truth; and it is God for us as a devotional exercise
to sometimes to read the Gospels, turning all the past tenses into the present,
and to remember that what we read there is an expression, quite strictly, under
all conditions of the time and place in which the expression took place, of
what is always true. And the culmination of this utterance is the Passion. The
ultimate truth about God and His relation to the finite spirits is this, that
‘when He is reviled He reviles not
again, and when He suffers, He threatens not’.
(About
Christ, SCM Press LTD, London, 1962, p. 63)
Sixth
Day of Christmas: Jesus = Something that's Going on Eternally
First
Day of Christmas: How God Brings His Love to Bear
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