Monday, January 13, 2014
Hebrews 1:1-14
The opening of the Letter (or Sermon) to the Hebrews opens with a beautiful beautiful meditation on the person of Christ. It reads a bit like our reading from Philippians 2 a couple weeks ago, so I wonder if it too may have been used in a liturgical context by the early church.
The high christology brings to mind the writings about wisdom personified, as found in Proverbs and the Wisdom of Solomon. Take a moment to read Wisdom of Solomon chapters 7 and 8. If you don’t have a Bible with the Apocrypha, you can find it online on a website like Oremus Bible Browser. It is beautiful writing (and featured at my wedding!). You will note how the writing about wisdom is consistent with today’s reading, and the prologue to the Gospel of John. Powerful stuff, indeed!
-Matthew Kieswetter
O blessed, silent one, who speaks everywhere!
We do not see the Blinding One in black emptiness. He speaks to us gently in ten thousand things, in which His light is one fulness and one Wisdom.
Thus he shines not on them, but from within them. Such is the loving- kindness of wisdom.
The feminine principal in the world is the inexhaustible source of creative realizations of the Fatherʼs glory. She is His manifestation in
radiant splendor! But she remains unseen, glimpsed only by a few. Sometimes there are none who know her at all.
-Thomas Merton, from the poem Hagia Sophia
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