Hilary: stamped

Tuesday, January 13, 2015
    Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367
    Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603
Meditation:
    “Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
    But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax.”
    They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, “Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?”
    “Caesar’s,” they replied.
    Then he said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
    —Matthew 22:17-21 (NIV)
Quotation:
    It behoves us also to render unto God the things that are His, namely, body, soul, and will. For Caesar’s coin is in the gold, in which his image was portrayed; but God’s coin is man, on which the Divine image is stamped; give therefore your money to Caesar, but preserve a conscience void of offence for God.
    ... St. Hilary (ca. 300-367?), quoted in Catena aurea, v. II, Thomas Aquinas, Oxford & London: J. Parker, 1874, p. 752 (see the book)
    See also Matt. 22:17-21; Mark 12:14-17; Luke 20-21-25; 1 Tim. 1:18-19; 3:9; Heb. 9:14; 10:19-22; 1 Pet. 2:13-17; 3:15-16; 1 John 3:19-21
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, cleanse my conscience and keep me from sin. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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