Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mib@pogo.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Starry starry night . . . Message-ID: Date: 15 Jan 91 09:38:22 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu (Dr Nancy's Sweetie) writes: On this, the first Sunday of Epiphany, I noticed that I've never heard a sermon on Wise Men that addresses the astrological aspect. I heard one once, and it was pretty interesting. The idea was that the revelation to Israel proceeded by the Pentateuch and the prophets, and that these were gifts to Israel. But, in line with the idea of an epiphany, the Gentiles might come to know their need for God through their own means (astrology in the case of the Magi) and seek God, finding him. This became possible with the gift of Christ to all people, which then extended the gifts to Israel as gifts to all people. -mib -- Michael I. Bushnell \ This above all; to thine own self be true LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE \ And it must follow, as the night the day, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu /\ Thou canst not be false to any man. CARPE DIEM / \ Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!