Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2)
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Who belongs to?
how figure who belongs to?
if describe well
recent possession
EASY: carries your mark on it
if belongs to them, it and stuff carries should be delivered to them
give to who owed
to know need to figure out what belongs to each
Gospel
Two enemies team up to trap Jesus
herodians, dependent romanist and pharisees
loyalist to caesar and loyalist to religion
soft gentle flattering words to get him to say something controversial
responds hard brutal and insultingly: actors, malicious
say he will say truth regardless opinion
‘not regard face of men’
so shows them face of man
Tiberius caesar face
carries his IMAGE and description ‘son of divine’ coin
and whos stuff it carries, belongs to that person
deliver it to owner.
caesar to caesar and God to God
So what belongs to each?
state system, currency, etc in certain ways belongs to state
carries their IMAGE
But what’s owed to God?
here is the irony
whos image carried by coin?
caesar yes, but is caesar a man?
Genesis 1:27
man carries image of God
inscription true as well, son of divine, not way caesar meant
all humanity offspring of God
all humanity rendered to God carries his image
all carries God’s mark, for all exists in some way and He is existence
so all that is, all that is positive, is due to God
all carries some aspect of goodness Himself to be delivered to Him
Coin belongs to ceasar b/c ceasar made it, but since God even made caesar, first and foremost belongs to God
Like ceasar gives his currency out to be spent well, so God gives His currency out to spend well:
life
What mean for us?
all owed God
but not all is God, but carries some aspect of goodness to be delivered
so obligations to things to extent of goodness they carry, but not more/less
Danger is to flip this order of currency
demand God render unto man, rather than man unto God
demand God carries our image rather than us in His image
particularly tempting in greatest things: governments, where people start thinking theyre gods over rest of humanity
as first reading says
king exist to carry some Goodness For God, not God for it
therefore never compromise God for politics
leaving God out of politics is the very last thing ever do
reverses order completely.
The state, much like ones family, however, isn’t God, there is a separation of the two, duties to state should not include all your religious duties
don’t need to codify religion into law
but NEVER should the state contradict God
pulls rug under feet
for all is ultimately exists as a carrier for God’s goodness, not as goodness itself.
Treat all things as carrying some image of goodness, and deliver that load unto Goodness Itself
Notes
Notes
Me:
Scaling
implies is duty to lesser, but one above all
herodians and pharisees teaming up
what should we make of spiritual and earthly hatred combined of Jesus who otherwise hate each other?
he does call them hypocrits tho (and Wis 2)
using his good character to hurt him (‘you are sooo truthful’)
does “not look at the prosopon of men” (expression of impartiality, not moved by prima facia appearance but truth)
prosopon for actor and face or mask
hypocrisy: acting
mask on coin
mask on man
“whose Image AND inscription”