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The Trial in the Wilderness

Published: July 7, 2020, 8:01 p.m.

The story of Israel\u2019s forty years wandering in the desert became a Rabbinic paradigm for the interpretation of the whole history of Israel, and carries over into the Desert Fathers of the Church. \u201cHarden not your heart\u2026.as in the day of temptation in the wilderness\u201d is a major motif. The story became an ascetical model for the early Christians, and is to this very day. Fr. Pat speaks to this topic.