{"id":10517,"date":"2015-07-26T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/?p=10517"},"modified":"2015-07-26T15:39:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T14:39:34","slug":"the-blessed-elias-a-type-of-the-saviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/the-blessed-elias-a-type-of-the-saviour\/","title":{"rendered":"The blessed Elias: a type of the Saviour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"profeta-elias-1\"From a Sermon by St Augustine, Bishop & Doctor of the Church<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brethren dearly beloved, in the Lessons which are now being read to us day by day, I have warned you that we must not follow the letter which kills, and thereby abandon the quickening spirit.\u00a0 For it is thus that the Apostle says: \u201cThe letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.\u201d\u00a0 If we desire to understand only what is in the letter, we shall get little or no edification from our readings in the sacred Scriptures.\u00a0 All those things whereof we hear were types and images of things to come; and those things which were foreshadowed in the history of the Jews are, by the gift of God, fulfilled in us.
\nThe blessed Elias, for instance, was a type of the Saviour.\u00a0 Just as Elias was rejected by Jewry, so was the true Elias, even our Lord, rejected and despised by Jewry.\u00a0 Elias went away out of his own country, and Christ must needs leave the synagogue.\u00a0 Elias went into the desert, and Christ has come into the world.\u00a0 Elias, when he was in the desert, was fed by ravens, and Christ in the desert of this world is comforted by the faith of the Gentiles.
\nFor the ravens which, at the command of the Lord, ministered to Elias, may be understood as a type of the flock of the Gentiles.\u00a0 Wherefore also it is said for the Gentile Church: \u201cI am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.\u201d\u00a0 Why is the Church black but comely?\u00a0 She is black in the natural order but comely by grace.\u00a0 Because she must own this truth: \u201cBehold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.\u201d\u00a0 Why is she comely by grace?\u00a0 Because she can go on and say: \u201cThou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responsory.<\/strong>\u00a0 Until this present day, || the veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away: but * When they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.\u00a0 V. The letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth. * When they \u2026 Glory be \u2026 When they \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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