Maxime N. Georgel

“Le Seigneur nous est utile et nous aide en toutes choses comme homme et comme Dieu : nous remettant nos péchés, comme Dieu; nous enseignant de ne pas pécher, comme homme.”
― Clement of Alexandria, Le Pédagogue, Tome 1

“We are bound to conclude, therefore, that the newness of the New Covenant cannot involve the elimination of the curse sanction as a component of the covenant and that this newness consequently poses no problem for the interpretation of Christian baptism as a sign of ordeal embracive of both blessing and curse. In confirmation of this conclusion we may recall that John the Baptist analyzed the work of the coming One as a baptism of judgment in the Holy Spirit and fire. Christ so baptized the Mosaic covenant community and he so baptizes the congregation of the New Covenant.
Pentecost belongs to both the old and new orders. It was the beginning of the messianic ordeal visited on the Mosaic community. Those who received that baptism of Pentecost emerged vindicated as the people of the New Covenant, the inheritors of the kingdom. Pentecost was thus a baptismal ordeal in Spirit and fire in which redemptive covenant realized its proper end.”
― Meredith Kline, For You & Your Children

“« Mon sang, dit le Seigneur, est un véritable breuvage. »

Lors donc que l'apôtre dit qu'il nous a donné à boire du lait, n'est-il pas clair qu'il veut parler de cette joie parfaite, c'est-à-dire la connaissance de la vérité qu'on trouve dans le Verbe, qui est notre lait, notre nourriture”
― Clement of Alexandria, Le Pédagogue, Tome 1

“But if the distinctiveness of the New Covenant is that of consummation, if when it abrogates it consummates, then its very discontinuity is expressive of its profound, organic unity with the Old Covenant.”
― Meredith Kline, For You & Your Children