“…Christ shows in actuality what is the universal hour for help from God the Lord: When everything else has declined to a dead end, when human reason no longer knows how to come up with answers. Philo wrote a beautiful saying about this: ‘Where human help come to an end, there divine help comes to the rescue.”
“Through His resurrection, the Lord Christ entered into His glory, Luke 24:26, and became a partaker of heavenly brightness and highest majesty. In such a state of His exaltation, what was to be His role? Was He to use His joy and glory only for Himself and no longer have a concern for how it is going with His disciples? Not so! Instead, He was concerned that His resurrection be made known to them and that thereby they be transformed from their sadness into joy. That’s why He was not content just to let the angels make the proclamation about His resurrection to the disciples. Rather, He Himself came and first appeared to Mary Magdalene, and soon thereafter to the other women who had come to the grave, then to the apostle Peter, and in particular to these two disciples as they were going towards Emmaus, to make known thereby His kindly disposed heart, that He gladly associates with people like us.”
Johann Gerhard Postilla*: An Explanation of the Sunday and Most Important Festival Gospels of the Whole Year, Volume 1, Sermons for the Church Year from Advent through Pentecost (Quotes from Page 161; Page 323) *Postilla is a Book of Sermons
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