P\u00e5 den tid fikk Jesus \u00f8ye p\u00e5 en mann som var blind fra f\u00f8dselen av. Hans disipler spurte ham da: \u00abRabbi, n\u00e5r han er f\u00f8dt blind, hvem er det da som har syndet, \u2013 han selv eller hans foreldre?\u00bb Jesus svarte: \u00abHverken han selv eller hans foreldre har syndet; han ble f\u00f8dt slik for at Gud skulle f\u00e5 vise sin gjerning gjennom ham. S\u00e5 lenge det er dag, m\u00e5 jeg arbeide for ham som har sendt meg, og utf\u00f8re hans verk. Natten kommer; da kan ingen mer arbeide. Men s\u00e5 lenge jeg er i verden, er jeg dens lys.\u00bb S\u00e5 med disse ord spyttet han p\u00e5 jorden, laget en s\u00f8ledeig med spyttet, og smurte deigen p\u00e5 hans \u00f8yne. S\u00e5 sa han: \u00abG\u00e5 og vask deg i Sjiloah-dammen.\u00bb (Sjiloah betyr \u00abutsendt\u00bb.) Han gikk da av sted og vasket seg, og kom seende tilbake. Naboene og de som hittil hadde v\u00e6rt vant til \u00e5 se ham som tigger, sa da: \u00abEr ikke dette han som satt og tigget?\u00bb Noen mente at det var ham; andre sa: \u00abNei, det er bare en som ligner ham.\u00bb Da sa han selv: \u00abJo, det er meg.\u00bb S\u00e5 spurte de ham: \u00abHvordan gikk det til at dine \u00f8yne ble \u00e5pnet?\u00bb Han svarte: \u00abDen mannen de kaller Jesus laget en deig av s\u00f8le, som han smurte p\u00e5 \u00f8ynene mine, og s\u00e5 sa han at jeg skulle g\u00e5 ned i Sjiloah og vaske meg. Jeg gikk dit, og da jeg vasket meg, fikk jeg synet igjen.\u00bb \u00abOg hvor er han n\u00e5?\u00bb spurte de. Han svarte: \u00abDet vet jeg ikke.\u00bb …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Til matutin i de tradisjonelle tideb\u00f8nnene leses denne betrakningen over teksten:<\/p>\n
Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John 9:1-38
\nIn that time Jesus passing by, saw a man, who was blind from his birth. And so on.<\/p>\n
Homily by St Augustin, Bishop of Hippo. – 44th Tract on John.
\nDread and wondrous are all the things which our Lord Jesus Christ did, both His works and His words; the works, because He wrought them; the words, because they are deep. If, therefore, we consider the meaning of this work of His, we see that that man which was blind from his birth was a figure of mankind. This spiritual blindness was the consequence of the sin of the first man, from whom we all inherit by birth, not death only, but depravity also. For if blindness be unbelief, and faith, light, whom, when Christ came, did He find faithful? May, the Apostle who had himself been born of the race of which the Prophets came, saith We also were by nature children of wrath, even as others. Eph. ii. 3. And if children of wrath, then children also of vengeance, children of damnation, children of hell. And wherefore so by nature, unless it were that the sin of the first man had made all his descendants to be born in sin, in that they partook of his nature? If, then, our nature bring sin with it, all men, according to the spirit, are born blind.<\/p>\n
The Lord came; and what did He? He set before us a great mystery. Jesus spat on the ground, and made clay of the Spittle for the Word was made flesh. And He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay but yet that man saw not. He was anointed, indeed, but yet still he saw not. And He said unto him Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam. Now, it was the duty of the Evangelist to impress upon us the name of this Pool, and therefore he saith Siloam, which is, by interpretation, Sent. Ye, my brethren, know Who is signified where it is written: (The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from his loins, until) He that shall be Sent cometh. Gen. xlix. 10. Yea, He it is, Who, if He had not been sent, we had never been sent loose out of the prison-house of sin. The blind man went his way therefore, and washed his eyes in that Pool, which is, by interpretation, Sent in other words, he was baptized in Christ. When, therefore, he had figuratively been baptized in Him Whom the Father hath Sent into the world he came seeing. When he was anointed, he was perchance made a figure of a Catechumen.<\/p>\n
We have heard this great mystery. Ask of a man: Art thou a Christian? He answereth thee I am not. Then, if thou ask him: Art thou a pagan then, or a Jew? And he still saith unto thee Nay and thou say Art thou then a Catechumen, though not yet one of the faithful? and he saith Yea, a Catechumen then there thou seest a man anointed, but not yet washed. With what hath he been anointed? Ask of him, and he will tell thee. Ask of him in Whom he believeth, and, being a Catechumen, he will say: In Christ. But, behold, I speak before both Faithful and Catechumens. What said I touching the. Spittle and the clay? I said for ‘the Word was made flesh.’ This the Catechumens hear, but it is not enough for them to be anointed; they must make haste to the washing, if they would have their eyes opened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Evangeliet om den blindf\u00f8dte, fra Johannes 9, er en sentral (om sv\u00e6rt lang) tekst rundt 4. s\u00f8ndag i fasten. I den nye kalenderen brukes den p\u00e5 4. s\u00f8ndag i \u00e5r A, den kan ogs\u00e5 brukes p\u00e5 denne s\u00f8ndagen andre \u00e5r (spesielt om noen voksne i menigheten forberedes til d\u00e5p i p\u00e5skevigilien), og om den ikke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8152,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions\/8152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}