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Among Gospel epitomes I
especially love the Jesus prayer, the Agnus Dei and "When he ascended on high,
he led captivity captive"--the good news as I first heard it from Paul
(Ephesians 4:8) and Christ's Jubilee proclamation (Luke 4:18).

To be
sure, the second-to-last word, which can be very powerful, can be given to
something else.

This always seemed like hard moral advice that very few of us were really able to follow. But in recent times its meaning seems clearer.