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CONCEPTION OF

§ 61.

[Div. Ill

but He saves humanity^ He redeems our race, and if all of our race are not saved, it is because they who are lost are There is no organism cut off from the tree of humanity. In the realm of glory, on the in hell, but an aggregate. other hand, there is no aggregate but the "body of Christ," This organic whole is no and hence an organic whole. new "body," but the original organism of humanity, as Tlierefore it was created under Adam as its central unity. the Scripture teaches that Christ is the second Adam, i.e. that Christ in His way now occupies the same place in the human race which was originally occupied by Adam. Hence it is not something else nor something new, but it is the original human race, it is humanity, M'hich, reconciled

and regenerated,

is

to accomplish the logical task of

taking up subjectively into

its

consciousness this revealed

ectypal Theology, and to reflect

it

from that consciousness.

Whatever a man may be, as long as he does not share the life and thought of this regenerated humanity, he cannot " The natural man receiveth not the things share this task. of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he

know them, because they are spiritually disOur consciousness is connected with ii. 14).

cerned" (1 Cor.

Without palingenesis there is no adaptation of our consciousness conceivable, which would enable it to assimilate or reflect ectypal Theology, and it is only by the onvheing.

"enlightening," as the result of palingenesis, that our consciousness receives the susceptibility for this.

general subject of humanity the spirit of

man

As

in the

(jo Trvevixa) is

the real agent, so in the general subject of humanity, or in

the body of Christ, the spirit (Trvev/ma) in this body,

Holy

Spirit,

is

the

inner animator.

And

i.e.

therefore

the the

which must be accomplished, under the leading of the Holy Spirit, by regenerated humanity, and by those from among its ranks who, being partakers of palingenesis, and enriched by "enlightening," have also in their natural disposition those special talents which are

science of Theology

is

a task

necessary for this intellectual task.

That the science

of

Theology

is

thereby not isolated nor

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