Today' readings contain Christ's poetic metaphor, "I am the true vine."
This is an elegant description of the intimacy between God and man as
well as the ever-present need for constant reassessment. God is the "husbandman," Christ's followers are the branches. But the metaphor raises an unanswered question: What is the nature of the fruit of the vine?
There is also the introduction of Paul into the apostles in The Acts, a
rather funny problem as no one trusts him. After his eventual
acceptance--earned by Paul's deeds, not coincidentally--he goes among
the Hellenists and preaches. These Hellenists are, of course, Jews influenced by the
rational Greeks, the wisdom seekers of the pre-Christian world. They
hoped to find fulfillment in man alone; in the pre-Christian world, it
was the Greeks alone whose gods were man-like, not some weird chimera of
man and beast. Yet, Paul, among these seekers of wisdom, must flee for
his life because they try to kill him. Kill him for what he is saying.
Why would seekers of wisdom do that?
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