Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 552

528 ter.

§ 84.

and

THE FORMS OF INSPIRATION becomes antithetic as In the lyric and ah).

[Div. Ill

prophecy Chok-

in

at least never

in the

(JtT. XX., Ezek. iii., et " of subjects, never " Dissonanz." is " Konsonanz

niah there

In prophecy, on the other hand, duality of subject starting-point for the understanding of its working, and

present where

it is

is

the

is even Nothing can

not expressly announced.

«"'33. The etybe inferred concerning this from the word indeed Who for this. uncertain too is word the of mology K3, which X^D3. to !733, back go must we whether will prove

would be

identical with ^a-, in

4>j]iJ.i,

or to X''33?

Or

also

whether the form SIS is a passive or intransitive katil-form, and whether, if effimdere, to pour out, is the primary meaning of this root, we must think of a poured-out person, or of a person who causes his words to flow out like water across One can offer conjectures, but to infer anything the fields ? to the meaning of the word is at present simply impossible. The synonyms also, Tl^l and Tip, merely indicate that the prophet is some one who is given

from the etymology as

to seeing visions.

From

the description of some of these

from the pheform in which the from and them, accompanied nomena that visions, as for instance the vision of the calls,

the prophet usually expressed himself, it can be very definitely shown, on the other hand, that, as subject, he felt him-

taken hold of by a higher subject, and was compelled to speak not his own thoughts, but the thoughts of this higher The frequent repetition of the "Thus saith" (HD subject.

self

"I^St)

proves

this.

In Jeremiah's spiritual struggle (Jer. xx. reaches its climax. In 2 Sam. vii. 3

7 sq.) this antithesis

Nathan

first

declares as

his

own

David

feeling that

Avill

5 he receives the proIn phetical charge to announce to David the very opposite. " that first, saith," Thus twofold 1-5 the read xxxviii. we Isa. Hezekiah will succumb to his sickness, and then that he will build the temple, while in verses

The fundamental type

again be restored. xviii.

18 as follows

4,

:

"

I,

Jehovah, will

put

is

given in Deut.

my

words

in his

comthought fundamental mand him." We find this all-prevailing still more sharply brought out by Ezekiel in Chap. ii. 8: "But

mouth, and he shall speak unto them

all

that

I

shall

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