[Grem] *****SPAM(5.1)***** Gospel meditation + 'Dicsőség mennyben Istennek, békesség földön az embernek!

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends,our Gospel for Christmas day is* the prologue to the Gospel of
John*. In many ways, it is* the entire Gospel, indeed the entire Bible, in
miniature.*

Let’s turn to *the central passage: “And the Word became flesh and made his
dwelling among us.*” The word used in Greek here for “made his dwelling” is
eskenosen, which means literally, “pitched his tent among us.” Don’t read
that in a folksy way. It is meant to call to mind the tabernacle of the
temple.

*The Word becoming flesh is God coming to dwell definitively in his
world,* *undoing
the effects of sin* *and turning* *it* *into what it was always meant to be*
. Notice, too, what we see in the wake of this tabernacling*: “And we saw
his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.”*

So *John is telling us that Jesus is the new Eden, the new Temple, the
restored creation, the realization of God’s intention for the world*. *And
our purpose is *not simply to gaze on this fact with wonder but rather *to
enter into its power: “From his fullness we have all received, grace in
place of grace.*
*Dicsőség mennyben Istennek, békesség földön az embernek!*
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