Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 404

;

380

IS

§ 71.

had become

;

THE NATURAL rRINCIPIUM ABLE

for this

God has

[Div. Ill

availed Himself of the

that were present in the creation, but which were

now

means

applied

in a different way and it is by this abnormal act of God, brought about by the modified application of present means, that special revelation was established and in this, i.e. of God, brought in this ahnormal act about by means applied in a different way, lies the special principium for the knowledge of God as All-Merciful to sinners. When croup pre;

;

vents the breathing in of

air,

the heroic operation in the

sometimes undertaken, in order in this way to obtain a new opening for the supply of fresh air but they are still the same lungs for which the air is intended, and it is the same atmosphere from which the air is drawn only another entrance has been unlocked temporarily^ and in so far a different principium of respiration has been estabIn this sense it can be said, that the normal enlished. trance, which in creation God had unlocked for Himself to our heart, had become inaccessible by sin, and that for this reason, by an act of heroic grace, God has temporarily opened for Himself another entrance to our heart, to reveal Himself as the same God to the same creature, only now with the aid of a different principium of revelation. In God, who is and always will be Himself the principium of all being (essentia) and all knowing (cognitio), nothingelse is conceivable than the unity of principium. But when from His eternal being our hecomi^ig is born, there is majesty in this eternal being to maintain His divine identity over against every abnormal process in our becoming; and this takes place by the appearance of the special principium, which actually is nothing else but the maintenance of God's holiness over against our sin, of God's truth over against our falsehood, and of God's counsel over against the demothroat

is

;

niacal design of Satan. § 71.

Is the Natural Principiiini able

Principium before

Having freed dualism, which

is

its

to

sinnmon the Special

Tribunal?

ourselves, in the preceding section, of all

so often inserted between the

two principia

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