Rewriting the Scriptures

 Rewriting the Scriptures 
... because we all do it, whether we admit it or not

This morning the lector reads one thing, but our ears interrupt and we hear something else, in this case something more.
     She reads, “From Hebrews, chapter 10”:

He sat down at the right hand of God, and since then he has been waiting until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet.

 But while she reads on, our ears hear the waiting end. He cannot do it:

And he reprimanded the would-be footstool makers, “Who are you to call these my enemies?” And he said to these, “Untangle yourselves. Your sins are forgiven.” And when he heard the footstool makers murmur, he said to them, “Your sins are forgiven as well. Untangle yourselves, all of you and throw neither others nor yourselves at the feet of anyone, but come sup with me.”

 

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