The Gospel According to St. Luke
The Gospel According to St. Luke
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But when He became the Son of man He voluntarily assumed the needs of humanity ; He " emptied Himself," as the Apostle expresses a great mystery, as if for the time divesting Himself of all Divine prerogatives, choosing to live as man amongst men. And so Jesus prayed. He was wont, even as we are, to refresh a wasted strength by draughts from the celestial springs ; and as Antaeus, in his wrestling, recovered himself as he touched the ground, so we find Jesus, in the great crises of His life, fa...lling back upon Heaven.
St Luke, in his narrative of the Baptism, inserts one fact the other Synoptists omit — that Jesus was in the act of prayer when the heavens were opened, and the Holy Ghost descended, in the semblance of a dove, upon Him.
It is as if the opened heavens, the descending dove, and the audible voice were but the answer to His prayer.
And why not? Standing on the threshold of His mission, would He not naturally ask that a double portion of the Spirit might be His^that Heaven might put its manifest seal upon that mission, if not for the Digitized by VjOOQIC 190 THE GOSPEL OF ST.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But when He became the Son of man He voluntarily assumed the needs of humanity ; He " emptied Himself," as the Apostle expresses a great mystery, as if for the time divesting Himself of all Divine prerogatives, choosing to live as man amongst men. And so Jesus prayed. He was wont, even as we are, to refresh a wasted strength by draughts from the celestial springs ; and as Antaeus, in his wrestling, recovered himself as he touched the ground, so we find Jesus, in the great crises of His life, fa...lling back upon Heaven.
St Luke, in his narrative of the Baptism, inserts one fact the other Synoptists omit — that Jesus was in the act of prayer when the heavens were opened, and the Holy Ghost descended, in the semblance of a dove, upon Him.
It is as if the opened heavens, the descending dove, and the audible voice were but the answer to His prayer.
And why not? Standing on the threshold of His mission, would He not naturally ask that a double portion of the Spirit might be His^that Heaven might put its manifest seal upon that mission, if not for the Digitized by VjOOQIC 190 THE GOSPEL OF ST.
What to read after The Gospel According to St. Luke?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Henry Burton to read onlineMoreLess
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