About Earthly Things

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Nicodemus was curious but careful about this Jesus. It’s understandable; he was a Pharisee and a Sanhedrist. He had standing in his community. The Catholic Encyclopedia puts it this way: “He appears … as a learned and intelligent believer, but timid and not easily initiated into the mysteries of the new faith.” Small wonder, then that the meetin...