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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nXAVIER LEON-DUFOUR \n◊◊◊ \nIn its internal logic\, punishment reveals God: it is like a theophany \nadapted to the sinner. He who does not accept the grace of the divine visit \nclashes with holiness and encounters God. This is what the prophet repeats \nwithout ceasing: “Then you will know that I am Yahweh”. Because punishment \nis revelation\, it is the Word which executes it; and it is in confrontation with the \ncrucified that it assumes its true dimensions. \nSince punishment is thus ordered to the recognition of Yahweh and of \nJesus\, it is so much the more terrible when the one whom it affects is closer to \nGod. The same presence\, sweet to the pure heart\, becomes painful to the \nhardened heart even though all suffering is not punishment. Still more\, \npunishment reveals the depths of God’s heart: his jealousy as soon as one \nentered into God’s covenant\, God’s wrath and vengeance toward the enemies\, \nGod’s justice and readiness to pardon and finally God’s mercy and pressing \nlove…. But there is a punishment at the very heart of our history where the \ntempter and sin have been struck dead — it is the cross where the Wisdom of \nGod shines forth. In the cross\, the “closed” condemnation of Satan\, sin\, and \ndeath\, and the “open” suffering\, the source of life\, coincide. \nThis wisdom has made its way through every ancient covenant; the \neducation of liberty was not able to be accomplished without “correction”. \nPunishment is connected with the law; historically\, this age has passed\, but \npsychologically many Christians delay there still: punishment is\, then\, one of \nthe bonds which continues to unite the sinner to God. But the Christian who \nlives with the Spirit is free from punishment. If he recognizes this as coming \n5 Dictionary of Biblical Theology\, Xavier Leon-Dufour\, Seabury Press\, 1970\, p. 476.11 \nfrom the love of the Father\, it is in view of conversion. And\, in our \neschatological times\, the true and only punishment is final obduracy. \nThis proximity of decisive judgment\, already at work\, confers on the \npunishment of “carnal” human being the value of a sign: it anticipates the \ncondemnation of everything that is not able to inherit the kingdom. But for the \n“spiritual\,” the judgment is justification: the punishment then becomes \nexpiation in Christ; voluntarily accepted\, it makes the flesh die to live according \nto the Spirit.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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