I recently bought a copy of the Navarre Bible - Gospel & Acts. It is wonderful! Its commentary is edited by Opus Dei Fathers of the University of Navarre, its approach to Sacred Scripture is so markedly different from the USCCB version I had used previously, that I'm at a loss to synopsize it.
Simply put - THE NAVARRE FATHERS VIEW SACRED SCRIPTURE AS SACRED.
Recently while meditating I came upon the text of John 15:19 which reads:
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."
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They offer the following commentary from Pope Saint Gregory the Great (pic above):
“The hostility of the perverse sounds like praise for our life because it shows that we are an annoyance to those who do not love God; no one can be pleasing to God and to God’s enemies at the same time. He who seeks to please those who oppose God is no friend of God; and he who submits himself to the truth will fight against those who strive against the truth.”
In Ezechielem homiliae, 9.
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This was true in the time of Pope St. Gregory the Great,
and exponentially so now!
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