Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 521

§ 82.

Chai-. II]

THE INSTRUMENTS OF INSPIRATION

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In this pregnant sense the Vision forms of itself the tranfrom the subjective to the objective means of revelation.

sition

Distinction can here

again be made to a certain extent

between such mediums of revelation (media revelationis) as were present in the ordinary course of life, and those others which in a supernatural way proceed from the special principium even though it is self-evident that it is by no means ;

always possible for us to draw the boundary-line sharj)ly between the two. In itself, the birth of a person is a common event; but when such a person is set apart and anointed from the womb to a holy calling, in this ver}birth already mingles the working of the special principium.

These objective means of revelation must claim our attention here, because they also were made ancillary to inspiration. This appears most forcibly in the case of the Christophany and Angelophany, which is never silent, but always tends at the same time to reveal to man what was hidden in God. This applies also to the signs all

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in the widest sense, because

these, the ordinary as well as the extraordinary, the per-

manent

as well as the transient, uttered audible speech^ or

tended to support a given revelation, to explain or to confirm The field for this should therefore be taken as broadly as it. The whole appearing of Israel and its historic possible. all the difhculexperiences must here be brought to mind the national conditions ties between Israel and its neighbors :

;

which the Lord called into life in and about Israel the the persons which the Lord covenant with His people the foreground; the natural in put and raised up in Israel the diseases that were observed phenomena which Israel the tabernacle and temple-service, plagues to the people ;

;

;

;

— in short, everything comprised developed

itself in Israel.

To this

in the rich, full life that is

added

as a second factor,

but woven into the first, that series of extraordinary actions, appearances and events which we are mistakenly wont to view exclusively as miracles. It was vmder the broad and

overwhelming impression of this past, of this nation as a whole, and of these events, that he grew up who was called to extend the revelation, and was trained for that revelation ;

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