Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 442

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Hence the but

INSPIRATION.

§ 75.

lies in

tliouglit,

that

it

and

comes-t£Lau end,

the nature of inspiration.

flows from the fact that our that, therefore, here, as

RELATION

ITS

This

human with

is

is

[Div. Ill

not foreign,

not arbitrary, but

race forms an organism, all

organisms, distinction

must be made between that which centrally directs itself to all and that which individually limits itself to single persons.

And

then it follows from this which centrally goes out to all must appear in that objective form in which it could continue from age to age and spread from nation to nation. That which is individual in its character may remain subjectivemystic in its form, but not that which is intended to be centrally of force for all times and nations. In order to exist objectively for all, this revelation of necessity had to be completed. As long as it was not finished, it missed its objective character, since it still remained attached to the persons and the life-sphere in which it had its rise. Only when it is completed, does it become independent of those persons and of that special life-circle, and obtain its absolute if

this distinction is noted,

Avith equal force, that that

character.

An

conceivable,

when one mistakenly understands by

ever-continuous inspiration

is

therefore only it

mystical

inworking upon the individual, and thus takes the work of re-creation atomistically. Then, however, inspiration fails of all specific character and loses itself in the general " est Deus in nobis, agitante calescimus illo (Lo, God is in our soul, we kindle when He stirs us); " while re-creation is then

imagined as coming from phantasy, and is no longer suitable for humanity, which only exists organically. In all organic development there are two periods, the first, which brings the organism to its measure or limit, and the second, which

—

allows

The

it,

once come to

its

measure, to do

its

functional work.

and man first grow, till the state of maturity has been reached, and then that growth ceases. An organic action which restlessly continues in the same way, is a contradiction in terms. Considered, therefore, from this plant, animal

point of view,

it

lies entirely in

which brings

it

to its

the organic character of

through two periods, the first of complete measure, and the second

revelation, that it passes

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