Thursday, September 18 Unwrathing the Cross part II The Pauline Metaphors “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” — Paul (Galatians 6:14) “For as we lost the sure word of God by means of a tree, by means of a tree again was it made manifest to all, showing the height, the length, the breadth, the depth in itself … through the extension of the hands of a divine person.” — Irenaeus (Against Heresies 5.17.3)