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A short introduction to the second chapter of Acts

The meaning of scripture, in this way, is the gift of God to the questions that he, himself, excites in man. This is illustrated on Pentecost day, in the litany of strange phenomena that overtakes the crowd that is gathered in Jerusalem.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Genesis
- Genesis 18

Word & Deed on the Plane of Time

A field in Canaan confirms the character of God & man

The chapter begins with the silence of God, but that yields to the kind of creative speech that can only belong to God: He will return to Sarah the time of life. But the elderly couple? They must learn to say less—or perhaps speak differently, and that in agreement to what God has spoken.

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Reflections (& Refractions)

Refitting an Analogy

Jesus Christ makes the mercy of God apprehensible

Justice and mercy are not merely principles to be balanced by bureaucrats, but they find their source and definition in the very character of God. He is both just and merciful in a perfection to which his creatures are incapable and too often insensible. We are in need of an analogy.

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