John 1.12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God… So far John has focused on the sad irony of a created people rejecting its Creator. He shifts his focus here to point out that, in contrast to the general...
John 1. 9-11
John 1.9-11 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. The true light. It’s not unusual to...
John 1.6-8
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. John the Apostle is quick to introduce John the Baptist in...
Ruinous Modesty
“Now he could see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears that not only Hitler, not only Heydrich nor the ‘sphinx’ Müller, not just the S.S. or the Party, but the elite of the good old Civil Service were vying and fighting with each other for the honor of taking the lead in these ‘bloody’ matters. ‘At that moment, I sensed a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling, for I felt free of all guilt’. Who was he to judge? Who was he ‘to have his own thoughts in this matter?” Well, he was neither the first nor the last to be ruined by modesty.” – Hannah Arendt (quoting and speaking of Adolf Eichmann)
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