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Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word: Meditations on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volumes 1–3: Chapters 1–25 is unavailable, but you can change that!

To the unstudied eye, St. Matthew’s Gospel can seem a terse narrative, almost a historical document and not the tremendously spiritual (and doctrinal) storehouse that it is. In these three volumes on Matthew, Erasmo Leiva shows Matthew’s prose to be not terse so much as economical—astoundingly so given its depth. The lay reader can derive great profit from reading this. Each short meditation...

θησαυρῷ κεκρυμμένῳ ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ a treasure hidden in a field HIDDENNESS RECURS AS a leitmotif in all these parables, a fruitful hiddenness rich in processes of maturation: the seed growing deep within the soil in the three first parables; the woman’s yeast, working its effect from within the dough; the reference to Jesus’ “uttering things hidden [κεκρυμμένα] since the foundation of the world” (13:35b); now “the treasure hidden in the field”; and, soon to come, the pearl that has
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