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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To the unstudied eye, St. Matthew’s Gospel can seem a terse narrative, almost a historical document and not the tremendously spiritual (and doctrinal) storehouse that it is.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...

παραλαμβάνει καὶ ἀναφέρει αὐτοὺς ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἰς ὄρος ὑψηλόν Jesus took them with him and led them up a high mountain WHILE PETER, SATAN-LIKE, had “taken Jesus to himself” (προσλαβόμενος, 16:22)1 six days previously in order to “convert” him to his all-too-human ways, Jesus has now regained leadership of the group by preaching to them the doctrine of the Cross. So now it is Jesus who takes the disciples along (παραλαμβάνει)
Volume 2, Pages 549–551
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