T. L. Holtzen

Like a Woman in Travail

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Father Porter sets death and suffering in the larger arc of the story of redemption, where the tomb of suffering and death becomes the womb of new life. The birth pangs of Israel bring forth the Messiah, those of Christ in death bear the church, the church’s own bears the Christian, the Christian’s death to sin gives birth to Christ in them, and the earth’s great travail on the Last Day brings forth the return of Christ.”