¥What
should we make of this?
¥RH
Charles has John borrowing from paganism.
¥CS
Lewis, in PilgrimÕs Regress and in Till We Have Faces,
suggests that God implanted stories among
the pagans, which (though distorted &
corrupted by them) still testify to GodÕs
redemptive purpose.
¥This
would fit JesusÕ remark in John 12:23-24 (when
Greeks came to him) about a grain of wheat dying
& rising to produce many seeds.