Friday of Week 27 in Ordinary Time - Luke 11: 14-26

Daily Gospel Exegesis

Logical Bible Study

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

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Luke 11: 15-26 - 'The finger of God has overtaken you.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 700 (in 'Symbols of the Holy Spirit') - The finger. "It is by the finger of God that [Jesus] cast out demons." If God's law was written on tablets of stone "by the finger of God," then the "letter from Christ" entrusted to the care of the apostles, is written "with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts." The hymn Veni Creator Spiritus invokes the Holy Spirit as the "finger of the Father's right hand."

- 385 (in 'The Fall') - God is infinitely good and all his works are good. Yet no one can escape the experience of suffering or the evils in nature which seem to be linked to the limitations proper to creatures: and above all to the question of moral evil. Where does evil come from? "I sought whence evil comes and there was no solution", said St. Augustine, and his own painful quest would only be resolved by his conversion to the living God. For "the mystery of lawlessness" is clarified only in the light of the "mystery of our religion". The revelation of divine love in Christ manifested at the same time the extent of evil and the superabundance of grace. We must therefore approach the question of the origin of evil by fixing the eyes of our faith on him who alone is its conqueror.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome again to Logical Bible Study. This is the Catholic podcast where we take an in-depth
0:16.5	look at scripture, and in particular, we do an exegesis, a verse by verse analysis of the gospel
0:22.9	readings that you would hear at today's Mass. So if you went to Mass today, you would hear
0:27.7	this really interesting reading from Luke chapter 11 and that's what we will have a go at today.
0:32.7	So Luke chapter 11 verses 14 to 26. Jesus was casting out a devil and it was dumb, but when the devil had gone out, the dumb man spoke, and the people were amazed.
0:47.3	But some of them said, it is through Bialzable, the prince of devils that he casts out devils.
0:53.3	Others asked him, as a test, for a sign
0:57.4	from heaven. But knowing what they were thinking, he said to them, every kingdom divided against
1:03.8	itself is headed for ruin, and a household divided against itself collapses. So too with Satan. If he is divided against himself,
1:14.5	how can his kingdom stand? Since you assert that it is through Beelzebel that I cast out devils.
1:21.5	Now if it is through Beelzebel that I cast out devils, through whom do your own experts cast them out? Let them be your judges then.
1:30.9	But if it is through the finger of God that I cast out devils, then know that the kingdom of God has
1:37.2	overtaken you. So long as a strong man fully armed guards his own palace, his goods are undisturbed. But when someone stronger
1:47.1	than he is, attacks and defeats him, the stronger man takes away all the weapons he relied on
1:53.6	and shares out his spoil. He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me, scatters.
2:03.0	When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, it wanders through waterless country looking for a place to rest,
2:09.4	and not finding one it says, I will go back to the home I came from.
2:15.2	But on arrival, finding it swept and tidied, it then goes off and brings
2:19.7	seven other spirits more wicked than itself. And they go in and set up house there, so that the
2:26.7	man ends up by being worse than he was before. So a fascinating reading today about devils and about Beielzabal the Prince of Devils and about the
2:36.8	kingdom of God coming on the people. So let's start by asking what the context is. So Jesus is on the
2:43.0	way from Galilee up to Jerusalem and he's doing ministry along the way. We're starting at verse 14.
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