But instead of Shekinah and Torah, the Jerusalem Temple and the covenant code, as the places where Wisdom/logos dwells and reveals the divine glory, John says that the logos became flesh, became a human being, became Jesus of Nazareth. Sirach’s positive worldview is reaffirmed, but now deals with the problem that 1 Enoch saw and that Sirach, with its optimism, did not address. ‘We beheld his glory’: for John, the supreme revelation of this glory was on the cross, where the logos died as the good shepherd giving his life for the sheep, as the Passover lamb liberating the people from their
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