Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 528

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§ 83.

THE FACTORS OF INSPIRATION

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cipium form one grand whole, while the antithesis is not moment. In the same way, in Ps. cxlviii. all that

lost for a

but every creature that exists, is poetically called upon to praise Jehovah, while the manifestation of the special principium asserts itself in the end, when it " And he hath lifted up the horn of his people, the reads even of the children of Israel, a peopraise of all his saints lives not only,

:

;

ple near unto him.

with

cl.

it

is

among His

Hallelujah."

And comparing

Ps. cxlix.

seen that in Ps. cxlix. the glory of the Lord

people

is

the theme of the Hallelujah, while

His greatness as creator and preserver of Doubtless the singers and prophets of Israel everything. owed this majestic conception of nature, which is entirely peculiar to Israel, to the prayer (Ps. cxix. 18), Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold, etc. only by the working of the special principium were they enabled to see the greatin Ps.

cl.

it

is

;

ness of the Lord in the utterances of the natural princip-

ium

;

but with this result that they by no means viewed the

miracles as standing isolated by themselves, but always with

the Niphleoth in the realm of nature for their background.

Thus we

see that apart

from

real inspiration itself, all sorts

of subjective as well as objective

mediums

employed by God, by which either for inspiration, to impart

it

were His servants

of inspiration

to prepare

unto them, or to enrich,

ratify,

or explain its content. § 83.

The Factors of Inspiration

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In the study of the factors of inspiration proper we begin with a sharp distinction between inspiration as a means of If, for inrevelation and inspiration of the Holy Scripture. stance, I take the fiftieth Psalm, the questions may be asked how, in what way, and on what occasion the singer was inspired with the content of this song, and what the relation is between what he himself sang and what God sang in and through him but these are entirely different from the ques;

by what action of the Holy Spirit this ancient song, in just this form, was adopted into the holy codex, by which it became a word of God to His whole church. For the prestion

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