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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:O KING OF ALL NATIONS \nFrom a treatise by St Hilary of Poitiers \n◊◊◊ \n[A verse from the second Psalm says:] Ask of me\, and I will give you \nthe nations to be your inheritance and the ends of the earth to be \nyour possession. Christ has indeed received the nations as the inheritance he \nasked for. When was this? It was when he prayed: Father\, the hour has come. \nGive glory to your Son that he may give glory to you\, since you have given him \nauthority over the whole human race\, to give eternal life to all those you have \ngiven him. \nThis\, then\, is Christ’s inheritance: the whole human race\, to whom he \ndesires to give eternal life. All nations are to be baptized\, instructed\, and born \nagain to new life. No longer will they be subject to the government of angels \nreferred to in the inspired Song of Moses\, nor will they be divided up among the \nangels in proportion to their numbers; they will be received into the Lord’s \nfamily and reckoned as servants of God. From the dominion of unjust rulers \nthey will be taken into God’s eternal kingdom. In the past Israel alone was the \nLord’s portion and Jacob his allotted heritage; but now the whole company of \nnations has become a single people\, the people of the one and only God. All who \nare to rise from the dead form the everlasting inheritance of God’s eternal Son\, \nthe firstborn from the dead. \nYou will rule them with a rod of iron; you will shatter them \nlike the potter’s vessel. To many people these words seem to conflict with \nthe goodness of God. Are the nations which the Son of God asked for and \nreceived as his inheritance to be terrorized by an iron rule and smashed like \nvessels of clay? No good person\, they say\, gives or receives anything for the \npurpose of destroying it. Does not the Lord prefer the repentance of sinners to5 \ntheir death? How then will he be acting in accordance with the nature he claims \nto have if he shatters with an iron rod those whom he has asked for as his \ninheritance? \nThese people misunderstand the divine decrees or else fail to recognize \ntheir justice and propriety. You will rule them means that Christ will lead \nthem like a shepherd\, guiding them with a shepherd’s loving care\, for he is the \nGood Shepherd and we the sheep for whom he laid down his life.
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