2Cor 3, 1-4 Letter of Christ written by the Spirit of God

2Corinthians 3

(2Cor 3, 1-4) Letter of Christ written by the Spirit of God

[1] Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you? [2] You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all, [3] shown to be a letter of Christ administered by us, written not in ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are hearts of flesh. [4] Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.

(CCC 700) The finger. "It is by the finger of God that [Jesus] cast out demons" (Lk 11:20). If God's law was written on tablets of stone "by the finger of God," then the "letter from Christ" entrusted to the care of the apostles, is written "with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts" (Ex 31:18; 2 Cor 3:3). (The hymn Veni Creator Spiritus invokes the Holy Spirit as the "finger of the Father's right hand" (LH, Easter Season after Ascension, Hymn at Vespers: Digitus paternae dexterae).