The talents

The faithful servants saw potential in the five and two talents they were given, but the wicked one saw nothing in the one he was given. So too, in the five books of the Law there is more than sternness and commandment: Christ is hidden there; and in all the two testaments there is more than prescriptions for life: they testify of him. And he who sees only sternness and requirements in the one God will miss his kindness and mercy, that he does not want anything that is buried not to be raised, even as he raised his Son from the dead. Sermon for Midweek of Septuagesima.