The New and Eternal Covenant by Vonier Dom Anscar

Author:Vonier, Dom Anscar [Vonier, Dom Anscar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Assumption Press
Published: 2013-05-03T00:00:00+00:00

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Jesus therefore, when he knew that they would come to take him by force and make him king, fled again into the mountain, himself alone (John 6:15)

Very significant in this matter is the rebuke which His “brethren” permitted themselves to make:

Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand. And his brethren said to him: Pass from hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost. For there is no man that doth anything in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world. For neither did his brethren believe in him (John 7:2-5).

Christ’s meek reply reveals a definite policy on His part:

Then said Jesus to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready (John 7:6).

He imposes secrecy on those who have seen His glory in the Transfiguration:

And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying: Tell the vision to no man till the Son of man be risen from the dead (Matt 17:9).

So also He enjoins silence on the men who have been the objects of miraculous cures at His hands. That it was His object to win at least a certain number of men to a relative comprehension of His mission in His lifetime seems beyond doubt; but nothing justifies us in maintaining that He was bent on making the whole people of Israel understand the mystery of His Personality and that, not having accomplished this, He failed.

The tragedy that ended His life can on no account be called a failure, because He surrounded it with such manifest signs of His superiority to His enemies that even the most timid of His followers did not think of Him as having been defeated, though they could not understand at first how His death could be reconciled with His visible power. His death is not a thing of infirmity but, in ancient ecclesiastical language, “a thing of power,” and the interval between that death and the Resurrection was so short that the idea of failure, in the modern sense, has no room there.

The only circumstances in Christ’s life with any likelihood of disappointment, of hopes gone astray, of failure, would be Christ’s ultimate position with regard to those men — how numerous they were we do not know — whom He meant to win for Himself, but who either refused to follow Him or betrayed Him.

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