Sublime

But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; For reflection: Isaiah 53:5 Human Death is a result of sin and the triumph of Satan. But it is also the means of redemption from sin, God’s medicine for man and His weapon against Satan. —from Miracles upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are hea

Ananias shares in Paul’s death experience, through kenosis, by being Paul’s minister. Although Ananias is free to protect himself and live for his own preservation, although that is Ananias’s right (shown in his skepticism), he is invited instead, through his own experience with Jesus’s personhood, to enter Paul’s