Between Text & Sermon: John 7:37-39

A few verses later, the hymn sings of the birthing of the children of God through faith in the Logos, "to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God" (1:1...

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Published in:Interpretation (Richmond) 2009-10, Vol.63 (4), p.394
Main Author: Reid, Barbara E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Christianity
Jesus Christ
Spirituality
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Summary:A few verses later, the hymn sings of the birthing of the children of God through faith in the Logos, "to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God" (1:13-14). Jesus himself invited us to stretch our imaginations when he spoke about God as a woman who seeks diligently for a lost coin (Luke 15:8-10), as a woman hiding yeast in dough (Luke 13:20-21), as a widow who persistently pursues justice (Luke 18:1-8), and of himself as the embodiment of the divine desire to gather all under God's protective care, as a mother bird does with her little chicks (Luke 13:34; Ps 91:4; cf. the extensive Hebrew witnesses to divine compassion employing the denominative verb "rhm" from the Hebrew term for womb "rehem"; Brown, Driver, and Briggs, The Brown, Driver and Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon, eleventh printing, 933).
ISSN:0020-9643
2159-340X