Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 591

THE NATURE OF

Chap. Ill]

The and so

567

ITS PRINCIPIUM

is much more difficult and intricate from consisting of a mechanical quotation with the

task imposed on us far

;

help of the concordance, the production of what the Scripture Beyond doubt the ectype contains demands gigantic labor. of the archetypal self-knowledge of

Scripture according to

human

God

is

contained in the

capacity with respect to both

and regenerate man (pro mensura humana, respectu hominis lapsi, and pro captu ho minis renati) but for the most part in the sense in which it can be said by the mine-owner, that ofold is at hand, when with folded arms he looks across The special the fields, beneath which his gold-mines hide. revelation does not encourage idleness, neither does it intend to offer you the knowledge of God as bread baked and cut, but it is so constructed and it is presented in such a form, that the utmost effort is required to reach the desired reWith reference also to this, you eat no bread except sults. We do not imply that this whole in the sweat of your brow. The task must be performed by every believer personally. very best of us would faint beneath its load. But we recall what has been said before, viz., that the subject of science is not the individual, but the consciousness of humanity and

fallen

;

;

that therefore in the

theology of

is

same way the subject

of the science of

not the individual believer, but the consciousness

our regenerated race.

Hence

it

a task which

is

process century upon century, and from

its

is

very nature

in is

And from being completed. In little be completed as any other scientific task. the Holy Scripture God the Lord offers us ectypal theology in an organically connected section of human life, permeated by many Divine agencies, out of which a number of blindingly But the brilliant utterances strike out as sparks from fire. treasures thus presented are without further effort not yet

still it

far

in the absolute sense

can as

and reproduced hy the consciousness of regenerrealize this purpose our thinking consciousness man. To ated must descend into this gold mine, and dig out from its treasure, and then assimilate that treasure thus obtained and not leave it as something apart from the other content of our consciousness, but systematize it with all the rest into one whole.

reflected in

;

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