Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 440

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§75.

reality,

and

INSPIKATIOX.

tlierefore

ITS

RELATION

[Div. Ill

with the principium of being, except

and events have been transformed beforeIt is in a thought, i.e. have become a narrative.

so far as the facts

hand

iiito

human consciousness that reality reflects its human toord this image becomes fixed and it

the ghiss oi our

image by the is from this word that the image of the ;

the individual consciousness of

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;

reality

him who

is

called

up

in

hears or reads this

such as the recreative Divine energy has woven through the past as a golden thread, was not intended only for the few persons who were then alive, and whom it

word.

reality.,

affected by an immediate impression, but was of central and /permanent significance to humanity. It could not be satis( fied with simply having happened; it only effected its purpose when, transformed into an idea, it obtained permanence, and \ even as the Divine loord, that accompanied it, and in the unity \

which joined this ivord to the facts of history, it could be extended from generation to generation. If now our himian ('consciousness had stood above these facts and these Divine utterances, the common communication by human tradition would have been enough. But since our human consciousness stood beneath them, and, left to itself, was bound to mis-

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understand them, and was thus incapable of interpreting the correct sense of them, it was necessary for the Divine energy to provide not only these facts and utterances, but also the

;

image of this reality so as to insure re-creation likewise in the This provision was brought world of our consciousness. the special principium in from energy about by the Divine (1) by means of the word in inspiration in a twofold way the past transforming the Divine doiyig into thought, and thus introducing it into the consciousness of those who were then

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alive and (2) by bringing to us this entire past, together with L_these Divine utterances, as one rich idea, in the Holy Scripture. Thus inspiration is not added to this wondrous working ;

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Divine energy, but flows, and is inseparable, from it. come from the principium of creation, but from Though, indeed, it finds an analogy in re-creation./ of that man with his Creator, and its paradisiacal of the communion of the

It does not

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connecting-point in the capacity of paradisiacal

man

for that

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