Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 560

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§ 84.

THE FORMS OF INSPIRATION

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but sketched in forms borrowed from the eaterpiUar.

From

this,

liowever, the apocalyptic vision derives

its artistic

This does not imply that the aesthetic element wanting in common prophecy but in this no tableaux

composition. is

;

arranged.

With

the

On

indispensable.

must

first

be

apocalyptic vision, however, this

is

are exhibited which, in order to be exhibited,

the prophetic horizon, which at

first is

it must show its form or drama in such a way that, however strange it may be to him, the prophet, nevertheless, It is Divine art, thereis able to receive and communicate it. composition correspond to its purpose, fore, which makes the and this accounts for the fact that the artistic Unity, in the symmetry and proportion of parts, in symbolism, and in num-

vacant,

bers, ficial,

is

This

seen so vividly in the Apocalypse.

but spontaneous

art.

By counting

it

is

not

arti-

over, the fact has

been revealed that the allegro in Mozart's Jupiter Symphony is divided into two parts of 120 and 193 bars that the adagio of ;

Beethoven's B-major symphony separates itself into two parts Naumann has found similar results in the of 40 and 64 bars. master-productions by Bach. division always

The proportion

prevails in highest

of the golden

productions of

one, however, will assert that Bach, Mozart, or

computed

this

division

of

bars.

sprang spontaneously from their

This

artistic

artistic

art.

No

Beethoven proportion

genius.

In the

same way the unity of plan (Gliederung) in the Apocalypse must be understood, just because in vision the action of the seer is least and the action on the part of God is greatest. The exhibition and announcement of things to come, i.e. the predictive character, belongs not merely to the Apoca" Before it came to lypse, but to common prophecy as well. I pass shewed it thee lest thou shouldest say. Mine idol hath done them." " I have declared the former things from of old yea, they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them suddenly I did them, and they came to pass (Isa. xlviii. 3-5, passim'). Entirely in the same sense in which Jesus said to His disciples, " And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may lielieve " (John xiv. 29 comp. xiii. 19 and xvi. 4). However :

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