The following quote was posted here and for some reason it triggered some... alternative thoughts.
This can be understood us referring to Christ or us. Christ was three spiritual years old (counting the years from His baptism) when His left eye, I mean the Jews, was (and were) blinded by the two logs of the Cross (the Scissors). Nevertheless, His right eye, the Christians, still offend Him with their sins, and by His mercy, He will be overjoyed to see them enter the pearly gates. We can also interpret the three years old as the third time God required fruit from the tenants of His vineyard (Matt. 21:35), in other words, the first coming of Christ.
In our case, scissors (and log) that blind our left eye is the passing judgement on our neighbor, which results in God withdrawing His grace from us, which is the ‘power of sight’ that enables us to carry out good deeds (the left). Despite such humiliation, our knowledge of scripture (the right) still puffs us up, but with God’s mercy we hope to enter the pearly gates with the only good eye left, the knowledge of faith.
It is possible to correlate the three years old and the twelve pearly gates, they both denote perfection in Christ. The twelve pearls are the precious teachings of the Lord (think of the parable) that become gates to Heaven for those who follow them. They are twelve in number, being the summation of moral (4), natural (5) and theological (3) knowledge or philosophy. Moral philosophy is realized in the four cardinal virtues (Wisdom of Solomon 8:7). Natural philosophy contemplates the material world by means of the five senses, and theology has the Holy Trinity as its subject and is therefore represented by the number three (4+5+3=12). Whoever accomplishes these three, can be considered three (spiritual) years old.
This can be understood us referring to Christ or us. Christ was three spiritual years old (counting the years from His baptism) when His left eye, I mean the Jews, was (and were) blinded by the two logs of the Cross (the Scissors). Nevertheless, His right eye, the Christians, still offend Him with their sins, and by His mercy, He will be overjoyed to see them enter the pearly gates. We can also interpret the three years old as the third time God required fruit from the tenants of His vineyard (Matt. 21:35), in other words, the first coming of Christ.
In our case, scissors (and log) that blind our left eye is the passing judgement on our neighbor, which results in God withdrawing His grace from us, which is the ‘power of sight’ that enables us to carry out good deeds (the left). Despite such humiliation, our knowledge of scripture (the right) still puffs us up, but with God’s mercy we hope to enter the pearly gates with the only good eye left, the knowledge of faith.
It is possible to correlate the three years old and the twelve pearly gates, they both denote perfection in Christ. The twelve pearls are the precious teachings of the Lord (think of the parable) that become gates to Heaven for those who follow them. They are twelve in number, being the summation of moral (4), natural (5) and theological (3) knowledge or philosophy. Moral philosophy is realized in the four cardinal virtues (Wisdom of Solomon 8:7). Natural philosophy contemplates the material world by means of the five senses, and theology has the Holy Trinity as its subject and is therefore represented by the number three (4+5+3=12). Whoever accomplishes these three, can be considered three (spiritual) years old.