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WATER TURNED TO WINE
A symbol of the substitution of the divine life
or love element for the duty element in the conduct of life. It is a
transmutation of the lower mental into the higher spiritual
condition of soul.
"The beginning of miracles' (JOHN i. 11) for the Man Regenerate is
always the transmutation of the water' of his own Soul into the
Wine' of the Divine Spirit." - The Perfect Way, p. 229.
"But by the Divine power the water is changed into wine when perfect
love casts out fear." - ST. BERNARD, Serm. I, in Dom. I, post. Oct.
Ep.
"By these nuptials and by wine, He signified the union, and as it
were, the marriage of our soul, through grace and charity, with
God." - C. A LAPIDE, Great Comm. St. John, p. 90.
"The miracle apart, there lies something mysterious and sacramental
in the very fact. Let us knock, that He may open to us, and fill us
with the invisible wine for we were water, and he made us wine, made
us wise; for He gave us the wisdom of His faith, whilst before we
were foolish." - AUGUSTINE, Gospel of John, Vol. I, p. 115.
"When the author of this (fourth) gospel asked himself what Jesus
had done for them, he conceives of His work as the transmutation of
the common ordinary life into a thing of spiritual value and
religious reality, that is, He made water into wine. If this be the
meaning of the story of the miracle at Cana, it is much more
valuable than if we took it in a literal sense. To believe that
Jesus on one particular occasion turned literal water into wine
would not be a religious belief at all, nor of any value for
religion now. But to believe that He, by the spiritual quality of
His mind, showed the deeper meaning, and brought out the divineness,
of the common ordinary life, is to recognise a truth of daily
importance for ourselves." - T. RHONDDA WILLIAMS, Serm., Miracle of
Cana.
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