{"id":47597,"date":"2014-12-28T03:01:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T03:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/blaise_pascal_on_jesus_for_christmas1\/"},"modified":"2014-12-28T03:01:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T03:01:03","slug":"blaise_pascal_on_jesus_for_christmas1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47597","title":{"rendered":"Blaise Pascal on Jesus for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/theconstructivecurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/blaise-pascal-on-jesus-from-pensees.html\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <i>Jesus Christ. Offices.<\/i>\u201d\u201dHe alone had to create a great people, elect, holy, and chosen; to lead, nourish, and bring it into the place of rest and holiness; to make it holy to God; to make it the temple of God; to reconcile it to, and save it from the wrath of God; to free it from the slavery of sin, which visibly reigns in man; to give laws to this people, and engrave these laws on their heart; to offer Himself to God for them, and sacrifice Himself for them; to be a victim without blemish, and Himself the sacrificer, having to offer Himself, His body, and His blood, and yet to offer bread and wine to God\u201d\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Jesus Christ. Offices.\u201d\u201dHe alone had to create a great people, elect, holy, and chosen; to lead, nourish, and bring it into the place of rest and holiness; to make it holy to God; to make it the temple<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47597\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,575,162,186,187,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-christmas","category-christology","category-church-history","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}