Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Pharisee babe

Lection meditation Luke 20:19-26

The problem with all the imaginative depictions of the Pharisees in art and film is that they look like what they are inside. So they're all kind of craggy and nasty. That can't be how they really looked. They were probably tall, dark and handsome, with shining eyes that gazed compellingly at folk. Try imagining them that way and see what it reveals. The beautiful and powerful vs. he who had no comeliness.

1 comment:

Confused perhaps even dazed. said...

The pharisees or the beliefs which the word entails aren't exactly evil just different. And even if they were categorized as pure evil I would think they would look like everyone else. That is to say that good does not give one a halo nor does it give them a wrinkled face, and evil the same effect. Either way why would outer beauty play any role.