Jesus' actual life story and place in history is far from the analogical 'root of Jesse'. Hearing the genealogy of Jesus and the whole way Jesus is related to David and right upto Abraham, he is more like the shoot that springs up from a rather battered sapling or tree that has been itself transplanted several times. The more apt analogy would be of a shoot that rises from a fallen stump... not just a solid tree, but one that has been battered and cut and left for dead. From that neglected stump, a new life springs up and grows into a flourishing tree.
All of this takes nothing away from the Scriptural imagery and importance we hear during the advent season, especially during the days of the Christmas novena.
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