For the Father loves the Son and shows to Him all things which He does. And He will show Him greater works than these in order that you may marvel. For even as the Father raises the dead, and gives life, so also the Son gives life to whomever He wills.

John 5:20-21

It is not easy to loosen our minds from thinking naturally or literally when we come to what the Word has to say. In the literal sense this is Jesus speaking but on a higher plane or deeper sense what Jesus spoke was representative of what the Word is continually saying to all people of all generations. In speaking these words, we find in John’s Gospel the Lord framed within the very concrete limitations of human language. As the Word, He brings the Divine Good into a form we can hear with our ears, read with our eyes and so grasp with our minds. For the Divine Good as it is in itself is beyond our ability to grasp and so it presents to human consciousness in the form of truths articulated in the words of human language that we can read and study and live from if we so choose…

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