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Acts 2.1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all
together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a
violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided
tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other
languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. (New Revised Standard Version).
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In the next few weeks literally study the text using
scholarship, commentaries, comparing versions of editions translated into
English. Note the context of this passage as it fits into the Acts of the
Apostles and Saint Luke’s Gospel. In short, stick to the plain obvious voice of
the text and use my intellect to make sure to understand what it says to me as a
reader. The text itself has its own integrity that deserves my full attention.
Next month, August 2006 we will move on to the second voice of Scripture, the
Allegorical or the hidden meaning underneath the text. To encounter God as
mediated in the second voice of Scripture we will come to it respectfully with
our own senses tuned to the hidden power that is evoked by intuition, and
symbolic languages of art, music, sculpture, etc.
I invite the reader of this web site to come along with your own lectio divina:
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