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All right, we're talking about the second coming, and that's a massive topic, of course.

You know, there was a great, another guy, person who was influential in my own life,

thinking and prayer was a priest called Francis Martin. Any of you ever hear about? Yeah, you know him,

okay. But he was, he was a great scripture scholar, and he used to say that the event of Jesus Christ is,

and the scriptures like a prism, you know,

that light strikes and breaks out into many colors,

and the many varied complementary

and even on the surface opposed interpretations of them come from the

fact that the light that is contained in Jesus is inexhaustible and that it therefore yields

many, many, many different facets of meaning and repays our contemplation and prayer then within more intimate knowledge.

Something can be simple in itself and yet when it encounters us, it becomes multiple

complex, multi-hued. And I think that what's true of a Jesus in the event of his death and resurrection in general is true,

is also true of the doctrine of the second coming.

The event of, I think that the event of the parusia is like the pure white light of God that is broken up into the many colors, particularly

in my two talks, this particular emphasis in the book of Revelation. If you read the book

of Revelation as though it were history written in advance, you're going to have some struggles because some of

the portraits and paintings and stories and allegories and are, well, it's hard to imagine

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