Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

God withdrew his protection, but did not break the union.

Anonymous, quoted by St. Thomas Aquinas: Catena Aurea.

  He was careful so to permit himself to die as to observe the Sabbath in his death; he would not be compelled to observe it.  He whose death was declared to be for blasphemy against the Law punctiliously kept the Law at the moment when he had completely fulfilled it.  The ritual of our past loves is normally to be observed whatever fulfillment and change they undergo.

Anonymous.

  God withdrew his protection, but did not break the Union.

Anonymous: Quoted by St. Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea.

  When Christ had been reprobated in our hearts, we are left with the money to buy a field 'to bury strangers in'.  It is a good purpose.  But, good or no, there is no help;  Christ will be only that to us—a stranger buried in a field—if he is not to be himself.

Anonymous.

  Others have always told it; the Other has always told it.  All initiation is from him, whether of curiosity or of faith.  He mediates it through others, because his delight is to involve others.  He plays, as Bacon said, hide and seek with his creatures, but we only find them by holy luck when we are looking for him.

Anonymous.

  That he is proclaimed to be blaspheming against himself is a mystery beyond that of Redemption.  Yet this also is what 'must' be.  His own Law, as far as it has been understood by men, finds him intolerable, and his is condemned by the principle which of old commanded the death of witches.

Anonymous.

  As Peter is drawn into the presence of Christ by John, so the church militant upon the earth is spiritually drawn into his presence in all ages by its holier members.  But then its chief temptation is imposed on it, and it shrinks from the necessity which is he.  It has made profession beyond its capacity, and it becomes afraid of being recognized by its dialect.

Anonymous.

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  Or is it not?  Is it indeed better that a thousand, or a million, should die, by painful and prolonged destruction, than that one should be unjustly put to death?  Perhaps; but to take the responsibility for it is not easy, and is should not suprise us if we, as well as Caiaphas, decline.

Anonymous.

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