the kingdoms of the earth, spred out like a banquet

[foolishness]

The Archdeacon looked at his watch, and said that he had only got five minutes more.  He suggested that the best way to spend this five minutes would be in prayer.  We knelt down together among the empty plates and cups, silver coffee pot now cold, toast-rack with one piece of toast left on it, fragments of bacon rind in congealed fat.  He prayed

Comments

In love with death

[cherryrellik]

I don't think that Christ could've loved death at all. No way he could have longed for it as some of us have, yea, and do on a daily basis

love and death

[foolishness]

It is all a matter of perspective. I would have to aggree with my friend Malcolm in this case, that Christ was, in a sense, in love with death. Death is either the greatest of gifts or the cruelist of punishments, depending on what perspective you are viewing it from. I for one, am in no way in love with this life. If there is to be any gain from it, it will be in "life's culmination", the end of this temproal life and the begining of the eternal. Christ, in turn, could love the end of his pilgrimage to a pain filled world.

And just to play semantics a little bit, "for the first time, and last time, in eternity. . ." ?