Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 478

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SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS RESULT

§ 79.

logical thought,

were sold

off as

[Div. Ill

the newest sample of

reli-

you pass from the period of negation of time view its present phase, you observe that this that to breastwork, cast up with so much exertion, is entirely deserted, and that literally no one defends any longer the repOn the resentation which was then generally accepted. contrary, opponents and supporters of orthodoxy are now fairly well agreed that, in that earlier conflict, upon exegetical ground, the orthodox exegetes were right, and that the gious wisdom.

If

Scripture, as it lies before us, really preaches those mysteries then so sharply antagonized. This has not been granted, of course, with the purpose of This recognition was arrived at accepting those mysteries. only after men had become well assured that nothing was to be

derived from

Now

in the interest of the truth of those mysteries.

it

was said that the Scripture itself must be abandoned, and that these mysteries had not been promulgated by the Christ, but were attributed to Him by Scripture documents of later composition. A da ca-po^ indeed, of the anit

cient assertion

;

only with this difference, that in the earlier

period battle was given in the domain of the Scripture, and

now

it

was turned against that Scripture

this failed of providing a

itself.

And when

conception of the Christ which

him of all supernatural elements, they have now even wrested themselves sufficiently free from his moral audivested

thority, boldly to declare that a certain circle of conceptions

belonged indeed to Jesus, which nevertheless have ceased to be true to us. But even this implies for us a twofold gain. First, the gain that, now we may see what the tendency of the earlier exegetical attack on Christendom was, and that in the main the exegesis of the orthodox was correct. And secondly, there is the gain that it is no longer denied that Jesus and His tions concerning

several

apostles

entertained

concep-

mysteries, which exhibit a clear

relationship to the orthodox

confession

—

a fact

which

is

with respect to the conception of Jesus and His apostles concerning the Old Covenant. Aside from the question whether the further development of the

particularly granted

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