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The Nativity | WOW15
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24:08Now Playing“The world was hermetically closed. Closed the cycle of human life... Closed and well-armored was the world against God from all sides, and it had no eyes to look out since all of its glances were turned inwards on itself... Only the world’s gullet gaped outwards, ready to swallow down whoever dared approach. And now that God’s Word saw that his descent could entail nothing but his own death and ruination - that his light must sink down into the gloom - he excepted the battle and the declaration of war... he would plunge like Jonah, into the monster’s belly and thus penetrate to death’s innermost lair... He wanted to sink so low that in the future all falling would be a falling into him, and every streamlet of bitterness and despair would henceforth run down into his lower most abyss. No fighter is more divine than one who can achieve victory through defeat.”
- Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Heart of the World, pgs. 41-44
Artwork: “Nativity” by Brian Kershisnik
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