Sep 2, 2022 • 11M

And the World Knew Him Not

A Meditation on John 1:10

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This episode of Anthony Esolen Speaks is a reading from my book, In the Beginning Was the Word. The scripture reference for this meditation is John 1:10: “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”

OH all ye, who passe by, whose eyes and minde
To worldly things are sharp, but to me blinde;
To me, who took eyes that I might you finde:
            Was ever grief like mine?
From "The Sacrifice" (George Herbert, The Temple, 1633)

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