Seeking to make the Lord God Jesus Christ visible in our midst… "Where two or three are gathered together in My name there am I in the midst of them." (Matt. 18:20)
Hi David, I am thoroughly enjoying these snippets about the meaning of Joseph and of his brothers. Thank you. What, then, of the meaning of Jacob, the father pf them all? Very best wishes,Ian
Hi Ian Jacob is described as the Divine Natural. My sense of things is that Jacob as the Father of the 12 is the Divine Natural from which all the goods and truths of the Church (on the natural level) are born, and we know from the current reading that Joseph is the supreme doctrine of the Church, this being that the Lord’s Human is Divine. That doctrine must rise above all others (Joseph as King) and rule throughout the Natural (i.e. over even Jacob [the dream of all bowing down]) if the “world” is to be saved. From a… Read more »
Hi David, I am thoroughly enjoying these snippets about the meaning of Joseph and of his brothers. Thank you. What, then, of the meaning of Jacob, the father pf them all? Very best wishes,Ian
Hi Ian Jacob is described as the Divine Natural. My sense of things is that Jacob as the Father of the 12 is the Divine Natural from which all the goods and truths of the Church (on the natural level) are born, and we know from the current reading that Joseph is the supreme doctrine of the Church, this being that the Lord’s Human is Divine. That doctrine must rise above all others (Joseph as King) and rule throughout the Natural (i.e. over even Jacob [the dream of all bowing down]) if the “world” is to be saved. From a… Read more »