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Advent 2C | Luke 3:1-6
“Every valley shall be filled,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
and the crooked shall be made straight,
and the rough ways made smooth,
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”
Those are some beautiful words, aren’t they? And beautiful sentiment: that we all shall see salvation. Just beautiful.
How the evangelist begins this chapter is far more subtle.
“In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius …”
This is orienting, isn’t it? To a specific time and place. We have records of this man and when he ruled. But Luke isn’t only tying this story to a moment in time, is he? There is more context being offered in the story here than time and place. Tiberius was an emperor of which empire? Exactly, Rome. And where did Rome rule then? That whole part of the globe. …
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