I was reading through the book of Hebrews again (it's my official favorite book of 2009) and came across a passage that upsets our categories:
Hebrews 11:23-26: By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
Two things the passage says we may have trouble with:
1) In the second "by faith," Moses had faith in Christ...hundreds of years before Christ came bodily.
2) in the first "by faith," the faith talked about by which Moses was saved from Pharaoh, was not Moses' faith, but the faith of his parents.
No Commentary. Just Observation.
1 comment:
just to be a Thomist:
or by circumcision.
But amen with the children stuff, keep it coming, there's alot of Anabaptists who haven't heard this.
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