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"I hid not my face from shame and spitting."
Kazantzakis' novel, The Greek Passion, is set in a Greek village in Turkish Asia Minor in the 1920's. The village is rehearsing its traditional passion play when a group of weary refugees arrive. When it is discovered that the refugees are in rebellion against the Turkish authorities, the village mayor and priest want to turn them out. So the priest tells the villagers that the refugees have a contagious disease and they are pushed out to the mountainside. A few people, however, try to help the refugees. One of them is the villager cast as Jesus, and in the process he loses his life and learns that the passion is not a play but life itself.
Isaiah's servant brings comfort to the Israelites and is treated despicably. He is confident, however, of his ultimate vindication by God. If we share his confidence, we can agree with Dostoevski: "There is only one thing I dread, not to be worthy of my suffering."
-- Bachelder
"I hid not my face from shame and spitting."
Kazantzakis' novel, The Greek Passion, is set in a Greek village in Turkish Asia Minor in the 1920's. The village is rehearsing its traditional passion play when a group of weary refugees arrive. When it is discovered that the refugees are in rebellion against the Turkish authorities, the village mayor and priest want to turn them out. So the priest tells the villagers that the refugees have a contagious disease and they are pushed out to the mountainside. A few people, however, try to help the refugees. One of them is the villager cast as Jesus, and in the process he loses his life and learns that the passion is not a play but life itself.
Isaiah's servant brings comfort to the Israelites and is treated despicably. He is confident, however, of his ultimate vindication by God. If we share his confidence, we can agree with Dostoevski: "There is only one thing I dread, not to be worthy of my suffering."
-- Bachelder
