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John 6: Law has become Person
EDITORIAL TEAM evangeli.net (based on texts by Benedict XVI) (Città del Vaticano, Vatican)Today Jesus’ "I am" resounds again. He has just asked them to work for the food that remains unto eternal life. But man hungers for more. He needs something more than the manna of the desert. The gift that feeds man as man must be greater, must be on a wholly different level.
Is the Torah this other food? It is in some sense true that in and through the Torah, man can make God's will his food. So the Torah is "bread" from God then; and yet it shows us only God's back, so to speak, it is a "shadow". «For the bread of God is that which comes down from Heaven and gives life to the world» (Jn 6:33). As the audience still does not understand, Jesus repeats himself even more unambiguously: «I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty» (Jn 6:35).
—The law has become a Person!
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