Today’s readings take us deep into questions about the nature of God, the act of creation, and the rejection of Christ. Augustine opens Book VII of Confessions reflecting on the errors of his early thirties, particularly his inability to conceive of God apart from spatial and material substance. Though he had rejected imagining God in human form, he still thought of God as something spread throughout physical space. Aquinas, in Summa Theologica I.45.2, confirms that God alone has the power to create, since creation means bringing something into being from nothing—an act only infinite power can accomplish. Finally, in Dialogue with Trypho, Justin Martyr boldly declares that the Jews' rejection of Christ and their persecution of Christians brought judgment upon them, and that circumcision was given to them as a sign of separation and impending consequence for their hardness of heart.
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