S. FAUSTI - "Neither I condemn you," Jesus says to the woman caught in adultery . This splendid narration takes us to the heart of the message of Jesus, the Son who does not judge anyone and on account of that he is will be judged. It's one of the most fascinatingparts of the Gospel, that is shows how Jesus effuses the Spirit who makes all thingsnews : He himself, from His pierced side, will be the gushing spring that washes all sins and impurities. This story let us come in immediately and easily, in the mystery of a God who so much loved the world He gave his only Son, so that whoever is thirsty may come to Him and may obtain the living water. This water, purifying and cleansing, promised by the prophet Ezekiel (47.1) and Zechariah ((13.1) is His love, which is fully revealed in the forgiveness – not mentioned in the text, so it is obvious and discreet. In this we know Who is the Lord:He is the One Who opens our graves, and he rises us from our tombs and gives out to us His Spirit. .The sinner, compeled by the zealous of the law in a circle of death, she will see at the end to vanish his accusers and she will remain in the middle, alone with Jesus, Who will show to her the horizon of freedom and love. The Teaching is Jesus himself, with what He is and what He makes. In fact He is the "Word", the new sanctuary, the presence of God, of that God who is made perfect in forgiveness. Jesus does not address nor provoke the crowd, daring her openly. He would have made the crowd angry even more. Rather he becomes Himself as absent and He bends Himself as in a reflective pause, in order not to be carried away by the collective violence. It's what He invites to do also to others, presenting to them another model to imitate, different from that of the violence of the leaders that is carring them away. The rivers of ink have been flowed on what Jesus would have written , forgotting however that the evangelist does not waste a single word on the subject. In the explanation we must, according to the text, only interpret the gesture of writing, without saying what it is written. To write is the act by which one wants communicate something to another one who reads. All the Scripture is communication of God to man, in turn, the Law was written by the finger of God on tables of stone. It has to remarked that Jesus does not write on the sand, but on the paved stone, in fact the scene takes place in the Temple. If we do not keep in mind the "finger" of the One Who writes and we do not enter into Communion with Him, the Scripture Itself becomes a fetish that prevents us from entering the God's thinking.
S.FAUSTI -The Scripture is the self-communication of the God Who loves life, Who does not despise any of His creatures. He has compassion for everyone and He does not look at the sins of men, in view of their repentance. If the Scripture denounces the sin , this is not to condemn the sinner. The intention of the One Who writes is to save him. The Law given for life and not for death, for the conversion and not for the despair, for forgiveness and not for condemnation. Since, however, from the beginning, we have transgressed the law, all we perceive it as a condemnation of us and our actions. But the prophets have promised that the days are coming when God will take away the heart of stone and will give to us a heart of flesh:there he will incise his law, not with His finger on the stone, but with His Spirit on our heart, which finally will be a new heart again, able to live fully the gift of God. Right on the cross, where the title of His sentence will be written, in Hebrew, Latin, greek - we will understand what Jesus now writes: God does not condemn, but he justifies and saves by grace. This is the meaning of all Scripture. Then we ourselves will be God's brief, written not with ink but with the Spirit of God, not on tables of stone but on tables of our hearts human.
S. FAUSTI - "Neither I condemn you," Jesus says to the woman caught in adultery .
RispondiEliminaThis splendid narration takes us to the heart of the message of Jesus, the Son who does not judge anyone and on account of that he is will be judged. It's one of the most fascinatingparts of the Gospel, that is shows how Jesus effuses
the Spirit who makes all thingsnews : He himself, from His pierced side, will be the gushing spring that washes all sins and impurities. This story let us come in immediately and easily, in the mystery of a God who so much loved the world He gave his only Son, so that whoever is thirsty may come to Him and may obtain the living water.
This water, purifying and cleansing, promised by the prophet Ezekiel (47.1) and Zechariah ((13.1) is His love, which is fully revealed in the forgiveness – not mentioned in the text, so it is obvious and discreet.
In this we know Who is the Lord:He is the One Who opens our graves, and he rises us from our tombs and gives out to us His Spirit.
.The sinner, compeled by the zealous of the law in a circle of death, she will see at the end to vanish his accusers and she will remain in the middle, alone with Jesus, Who will show to her the horizon of freedom and love.
The Teaching is Jesus himself, with what He is and what He makes.
In fact He is the "Word", the new sanctuary, the presence of God, of that God who is made perfect in forgiveness.
Jesus does not address nor provoke the crowd, daring her openly.
He would have made the crowd angry even more. Rather he becomes Himself as absent and He bends Himself as in a reflective pause, in order not to be carried away by the collective violence.
It's what He invites to do also to others, presenting to them another model to imitate, different from that of the violence of the leaders that is carring them away. The rivers of ink have been flowed on what Jesus would have written , forgotting however that the evangelist does not waste a single word on the subject. In the explanation we must, according to the text, only interpret the gesture of writing, without saying what it is written. To write is the act by which one wants communicate something to another one who reads.
All the Scripture is communication of God to man, in turn, the Law was written by the finger of God on tables of stone. It has to remarked that Jesus does not write on the sand, but on the paved stone, in fact the scene takes place in the Temple.
If we do not keep in mind the "finger" of the One Who writes and we do not enter into Communion with Him, the Scripture Itself becomes a fetish that prevents us from entering the God's thinking.
S.FAUSTI -The Scripture is the self-communication of the God Who loves life, Who does not despise any of His creatures. He has compassion for everyone and He does not look at the sins of men, in view of their repentance.
RispondiEliminaIf the Scripture denounces the sin , this is not to condemn the sinner. The intention of the One Who writes is to save him.
The Law given for life and not for death, for the conversion and not for the despair, for forgiveness and not for condemnation. Since, however, from the beginning, we have transgressed the law, all we perceive it as a condemnation of us and our actions. But the prophets have promised that the days are coming when God will take away the heart of stone and will give to us a heart of flesh:there he will incise his law, not with His finger on the stone, but with His Spirit on our heart, which finally will be a new heart again, able to live fully the gift of God.
Right on the cross, where the title of His sentence will be written,
in Hebrew, Latin, greek - we will understand what Jesus now writes: God does not condemn, but he justifies and saves by grace.
This is the meaning of all Scripture.
Then we ourselves will be God's brief, written not with ink but with the Spirit of God, not on tables of stone but on tables of our hearts human.