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2 comments:
I'm glad you posted this. I love the insight into the character of the priest and the Levite. They represent the Law and are unable to have compassion. The Law can only tell the beaten man what it is that he needs to do: Love your enemies.
Also, I think the identification that we are the ones who have been beaten and left for dead is spot on. Before we can "go and do likewise" we must realize what it is that has been done to and for us. We have been rescued and given new life, and we are the ones who continually fail to love our neighbor. It's so important to recognize that rhythm in the Christian life. We say, "I haven't loved." Jesus replies, "But I have loved you." This is good.
It sounded as though the lesson to the reader is the same as the lesson to the "expert in the law", but this wrestles me...
To the expert Luke 10:36-37 responds to the justification sought in v.29, and to the impossibility of him earning his own inheritance (v.25).
I don't see how the expert would have understood v.36 to superimpose himself as the man who was robbed.
Instead, like the rich young man (Matthew 19, Mark 10) who walks away sad, we're left to wonder whether the self-justification is replaced with faithful dependance on Christ.
But now the gospel has been revealed, which leaves us to superimpose ourselves as the "expert" in the law, in the futility of self-justification and the need for a loving neighbor willing to pay whatever it takes to rescue us from death. Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord!
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