Monday
Acts 17:1-15; John 11:47-57
What do we? for this man doeth many miracles (John 11:47). Jewish erudition found the Savior to be guilty. And in our days, German erudition finds what is supernatural to be out of place in the Gospels of Christ : everything is good, only this (the miraculous) just won't work. These two ways of thinking meet in the final analysis. Jewish erudition decided: It is expedient that one man should die (John 11:50), and that the rest might not perish, while German erudition states: We will eliminate the supernatural to preserve all the other Gospel truths. And what came of this? The Jews destroyed their own nation, while the Germans have lost all Christian truths, and are now left with almost nothing. The Lord is the Cornerstone of the house of salvation; similarly, faith in the supernatural is the cornerstone of the entire building of God-inspired truth. The Savior Himself, in His Person, is the crown of the supernatural, and in the Church He is its inexhaustible Source. He who touches this point is touching the apple of God's eye.
-From St. Theophan the Recluse
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