A Moment Aside --- 22 April 2021
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
- Martin Luther -
As much as we might revere the
Bible, it is not the paper and the ink that is the Word of God. It is not the
binding and the cover that are the message of life for us. Nor is specific
translation from the original language – Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek – more able
to carry this message. After all, the Bible has been translated into so many
languages I cannot keep any sort of count. I met a priest of the Anglcian
Church of Canada who spent many years of his life translating the Bible into Inuktitut,
the language of the peoples of the Eastern Arctic. It is just as much the Bible
as the New Revisied Standard Version, the Jerusalem Bible, or the King James
Authorized Version.
As Luther states, the Bible is the cradle wherein Christ
is laid, so it is where he will be found. Our task is to live the Word as part
of our lives rather than leave the Living Word – Jesus Christ himself - on a
shelf with a bunch of other books.
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