Poetry

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NO MORE THAN MAN?

And Christ was born
a babe in Bethlehem.

Just Joseph’s son, they said,
as Pharisees in ruthlessness pursued
his ministry to blind and lame and outcast
in their troubled streets.

Christ’s greater claim stirred up their blinded hate,
resolved they were to see no more
than merely man
on whom to vent their scorn and spitefulness
to death.

No more than man?
Then useless he would die on Roman cross
and men were lost
and babe become
no more than sentiment
exploited by the trendy economics
of our stony world.

No more than man?
Is not the infant Christ of history
the ever-living God come down to earth
to give his life
for men
by death
on Calvary?

"God was manifest in the flesh"
1 Timothy 3:16, KJV

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