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"That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life -- the life was made manifest, and we saw it, and testify to it ...." I John 1:1-2 (RSV)

"After his resurrection the disciples saw the living Christ, whom they knew to have died, with the eyes of faith (oculata fide)." Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, III, 55, 2 ad 1, as quoted in D. M. Stanley, Jesus in Gethsemane (New York, Paulist Press 1980).

Friday, May 17, 2013

The Sadducees Were Cruel

The Sadducees were cruel:

 Paul was taken before the high council in Jerusalem, he found sympathy among his hearers by appealing to the Pharisees (Acts 22:30-23:10). When in 62 A.D., the Lord’s brother James, and apparently other Christians, were illegally put to death by the Sadducean high priest, the Pharisees appealed to the king, and the high priest was deposed. Taking the last case along with the two earlier ones, we can hardly avoid the impression that the Pharisees regarded the Sadducean hierocracy’s persecution of the early Christians as further proof of the manifestly unjust cruelty of this group.

 Jesus, by David Flusser at 39-40 (Jerusalem: Magnes Press 2nd ed., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998). 
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