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[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, today we reflect on the significance of the conversion of St.
Paul. Paul’s encounter on the road to Damascus was an answer to this
question: When would God gather the nations and through Israel bring his
rule to the whole world? When Paul met Jesus he realized that the promises
of God had been fulfilled, that the expectations of the prophets had been
met—but in a most unexpected and extraordinary way. *He knew from his
tradition that God, through Israel, would deliver the world from sin,
gather the nations, and establish peace and justice everywhere. That was
the hope. The

* usual version of that hope was something like an avenging military and
political ruler like Solomon or David, or a great lawgiver and leader like
Moses. What Paul saw in Jesus was someone greater than Moses, Solomon, or
David—and someone wholly unexpected. God is establishing his justice, his
right order, his way, through a crucified and risen criminal, and now
returned from the dead? Forgiveness, compassion, nonviolence, having no
truck with the ways of death? This is God’s justice, and it judges all of
the fallen powers and kingdoms of the world.*
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