Wednesday, October 11 : Saint Jerome

Now he proves that we are sons of God from the Spirit which we have in us. For, he says, we would never dare to say, “Our Father, who are in heaven, hallowed be your name,”’® unless we had an awareness of the Spirit dwelling in us and crying out, “Abba, Father.” …It should be noted that in Scripture “crying out” (clamor) refers not to the letting out of a loud sound but to a profundity of knowledge and teaching. The Lord accordingly responded to Moses in Exodus, “Why do you cry out to me?” even though Moses had not made a single sound prior to this. Indeed, in Scriptural parlance a heart that is contrite and weeps for the people is “crying out.”… So he is no longer a slave, but a son; because he is a son, he is also an heir through God. Paul says: Having as you do the Spirit of the Son of God crying out in you, “Abba, Father,” you have begun to be no longer slaves but sons. Although you were masters by nature, you used to be no different from slaves, yet you lived as children under the care of guardians and trustees. If you are sons, then you are owed an inheritance. You who have gone from slavery to freedom, are heirs with the heir to the Father, Christ Jesus, who speaks in the Psalm in the persona of the man he assumed, “The Lord said to me: ‘You are my Son, today I have become your Father. Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.’'” What we say here we should observe in other places as well, that the whole human race is being treated under a single term. For all of us believers are one in Christ Jesus and members of his body. Now that we have reached maturity, we have him as our head because the head of a man is Christ.

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