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[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, the Gospel for the feast of the Epiphany contains some elemental
theological themes. One of them has to do with the relation between
Christianity and the nations. We hear something extraordinary. Magi from
the East left their home country in search of a newborn king whose star
they had observed at its rising. Why, precisely, would people leave their
own country in order to worship a foreign king at his birth? So this odd
story should get our attention. Magi—kings, astrologers—seek out a foreign
king who somehow, nevertheless, belongs to them. We’re actually coming
close to the heart of the Biblical revelation. Of all the nations of the
world, God chose to make of Israel a beacon to the world, so that through
Israel all might be gathered. Yes, a king would be born for the Jews, but
he wouldn’t be for the Jews alone. This Messiah would be the King of kings,
a light to all the nations. The Messiah, therefore, would represent the
overcoming of the nations, the transcendence of **the disputes **between
peoples and cultures that had so tragically marked human history, and the
opening up of a new possibility.*
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