11 October 2024
When I read the Gospel and find there testimonies from the Law and from
the Prophets, I see only Christ; I so see Moses and the Prophets and I
understand them of Christ. Then when I come to the splendor of Christ Himself,
and when I gaze at that glorious sunlight, I care not to look at the lamplight.
For what light can a lamp give when lit in the daytime? If the sun shines out,
the lamplight does not show. So, too, when Christ is present the Law and the
Prophets do not show. Not that I would detract from the Law and the Prophets;
rather do I praise them in that they show forth Christ. But I so read the Law
and the Prophets as not to abide in them but from them to pass to Christ.
St. Jerome
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