Deep Mysteries: God, Christ, and Ourselves by Aidan Nichols

Author:Aidan Nichols [Nichols, Aidan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Published: 2018-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

St. Matthew stresses John’s austerity: John lived off locusts and wild honey. The first sounds distinctly unpalatable, but the wild honey was exquisite and much sought after. However, the same word could be used for the exudation of certain trees. The monks of St. Catherine’s monastery, Mount Sinai, collected this sap in Lagrange’s day, and he tells us its taste was insipid.[3] Pharisees and Sadducees came to him, perhaps just to observe, or otherwise to undergo the rite he performed—inasmuch as they understood it, which may not have been very well. According to Josephus, Pharisees took the ritual ablution to symbolize the pureness of their own souls.

For the evangelist Matthew, John’s baptism of Jesus had a purpose altogether unique. In Lagrange’s words in his commentary on the First Gospel,

It is the manifestation of Jesus as one stronger than John, and who must replace his baptism by a new baptism in the Spirit. Christian baptism is not yet instituted, and John will continue to baptize; but Jesus is invested with his mission; already one order is succeeding to another.[4]

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