Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 447

Chap.

CONXECTIOX WITH MIRACLES

II]

were not exhausted in the

all ratio

moment

given

effort at that

save those individuals, for this

423

sufficiens

was

to

Avant-

but which once having taken place, were perpetuated by the tradition of the Scripture for all people and every generation, in order to furnish a permanent foundation to the hope of all generations. For this purpose they could not ing

;

create a 7iew reality (Lazarus indeed dies again), but tended merely to prove the possibility of redemption in facts and this they had to do under two conditions: (1) that successively they should overcome every effect of sin in our human misery and (2) that they should be a model, a proof, a (Tr)/xelov, and therefore be limited to one period of time and to one circle. Otherwise it would have become a real palingenesis, and they would have forfeited their character of signs. There were hundreds in and about Jerusalem whom Jesus might have raised from the dead. That Lazarus should be raised is no peculiar favor to him; for after once having died in peace, who would ever wish to return to this life in sin? but it was to glorify God, i.e. to exhibit that power of God which is also able to abolish death. This is ;

;

what must be shown

in order that both

psychically and

Thus only does in this way regeneration immediately bound into

physically salvation shall be fully revealed.

hope receive also

its

by these

indispensable support.

signs

is

And

one whole with the palingenesis of the body and of the cosmos as object of faith. What Paul writes of the experiences in the wilderness

way

" All these things

:

of example;

(1 Cor. X. 11),

is

and they true of

happened unto them by admonition" kind of miracles, of which

Avere written for our

all this

with equal authority we may say: "Now all these things happened by way of example; and they were written for our admonition." The destructive and rebuking miracles are entirely in line with this. With the parousia belongs the judgme^it. The misery^

which

as the result of sin

now weighs

yet by no means the consummation of the ruin.

us down, If

now

is

that

same power of God, by which the palingenesis of soul, body and of cosmos shall hereafter be established, will simultane-

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