Luke – references in Science & Health part 1

Last month I started to review references from Luke in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy.  Well, now I’m back to it and find there are almost forty just in Science and Health!  I love this research!

 

·        Luke 1:33 the angel tells Mary - “of his kingdom there shall be no end.”

S&H 565:13 “The impersonation of the spiritual idea had a brief history in the earthly life of our Master; but “of his kingdom there shall be no end,” for Christ, God’s idea, will eventually rule all nations and peoples – imperatively, absolutely, finally – with divine Science.”

·        Luke 2:14 Angels again, this time telling the shepherds “on earth peace, good will toward men.”
S&H 226:14 “God has built a higher platform of human rights, and He has built it on diviner claims.  These claims are not made through code or creed, but in demonstration of “on earth peace, good-will toward men.”  Human codes, scholastic theology, material medicine and hygiene, fetter faith and spiritual understanding.”

·        Luke 2:49 Twelve year old Jesus asks Mary and Joseph – “wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?”
S&H 52:1 “From early boyhood he was about his “Father’s business.”  His pursuits lay far apart from theirs*.  His master was Spirit; their master was matter.  He served God; they served mammon.  His affections were pure; theirs were carnal.  His senses drank in the spiritual evidence of health, holiness, and life; their senses testified oppositely, and absorbed the material evidence of sin, sickness, and death.”  

*Refers to “his persecutors” and “the selfish materialist” – see S&H page 51.

·        Luke 4:18 Here we have Jesus in the synagogue, reading from the prophet Esaisas (Isaiah) -“To preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.”
S&H xi:9 “The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation.  Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural.  They are the sign of Immanuel, or “God with us,” – a divine influence ever present in human consciousness and repeating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,
          To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense],
          And recovering of sight to the blind,   
          To set at liberty them that are bruised.”

·        Luke 6:38 Jesus is speaking to his disciples and a great multitude of people here - “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.  For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”
S&H 5: 11 Eddy is talking about sorrow and reformation when she writes – “The measure ye mete “shall be measured to you again,” and it will be full “and running over.””

·        Luke 7: 22 John the Baptist has sent some of his disciples to Jesus to ask him if he is “he that should come.”  Jesus responds “Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.”

S&H 27: 1 “Jesus sent a message to John the Baptist, which was intended to prove beyond a question that the Christ had come: “Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.” In other words: Tell John what the demonstration of divine power is, and he will at once perceive that God is the power in the Messianic work.”

·        Luke 7:33, 34 John’s disciples have left and Jesus speaks to the people about John.  But the Pharisees and lawyers don’t like what they hear and Jesus responds “John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a devil.  The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!”

S&H 52: 29 “The accusations of the Pharisees were as self-contradictory as their religion.  The bigot, the debauchee, the hypocrite, called Jesus a glutton and a wine-bibber.  They said: “He casteth out devils through Beelzebub,” and is the “friend of publicans and sinners.”  The latter accusation was true, but not in their meaning.  Jesus was no ascetic.  He did not fast as did the Baptist’s disciples; yet there never lived a man so far removed from appetites and passions as the Nazarene.”

www.thefreedictionary.com
>   bigot - person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed , belief, or opinion

>   debauchee - person addicted to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures

Ø  hypocrite - person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess

Ø  glutton - person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink

Ø  wine-bibber - person who drinks much wine

Ø  ascetic - person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion

more to come...