The Mirror

[jill]

This whole mirror thing and Jewish nosejob reminds me of Romans 3:20, and a
certain Lutheran Hymn. I'm no biblical scholar, so there's my disclaimer...

But the law and the mirror are related...

         Rom 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin. 

(For by the law is the knowledge of sin. That law which convicts and
condemns us can never justify us.. )

 Paul Speratus (1484-1531), “Salvation unto Us Has Come,”
(LW #355): (Go Down to the Third Stanza.....!)

     Salvation unto us has come
     By God’s free grace and favor;
     Good works cannot avert our doom,
     They help and save us never.
     Faith looks to Jesus Christ alone,
     Who did for all the world atone;
     He is our one Redeemer.

     What God did in His law demand
     And none to Him could render
     Caused wrath and woe on ev’ry hand
     For man, the vile offender.
     Our flesh has not those pure desires
     The spirit of the law requires,
     And lost is our condition.

     It was a false misleading dream
     That God his law had given
     That sinners could themselves redeem
     And by their works gain heaven.
     The Law is but a mirror bright
     To bring the inbred sin to light
     That lurks within our nature.

     Since Christ has full atonement made 
     And brought to us salvation,
     Each Christian therefore may be glad
     And build on this foundation.
     Your grace alone, dear Lord, I plead,
     Your death is now my life indeed,
     For you have paid my ransom.

s~Z wrote:
> 
> There is a kind of net that is as old as Methusaleh, as soft as a cobweb and
> as full as holes, yet it has retained its
> strength to this day. When a demon wearies of chasing after yesterdays or of
> going round in circles on a windmill, he
> can install himself inside a mirror. There he waits like a spider in its
> web, and the fly is certain to be caught."
> -Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Mirror