Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 512

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§ 82.

THE INSTRUMENTS OF INSPIRATION

[Div. Ill

cannot explain, either from the world about him or from his To him as well as to the artist this impulse is

world within. a mystery.

The question whether such an impulse from

the

not connected with the basis of genius

world of mysteries Nothing prein such select spirits, need not detain us here. vents us from allowing that such a basis was also present in He even knew himself the whole personality of Jeremiah. But to be prepared for his calling from his mother's womb. even if this impulse in connection with inspiration is nothing else than the use of what is present in the subject, and the application of that for which he had the susceptibility, this impulse here bears nevertheless a peculiar stamp, insomuch This as it always occurs as an impulse of the Holy Ghost. certainly concedes the fact which definition, closer is a an impulse come to cause such to Lord can the that God life but now employs psychical our of us in the centrum is

;

it

for a definite purpose, limits

it

to the sphere of the holy,

and places it in connection with the entire plan of ReveThe " clothing " lation, which He is in the act of giving. " (^5b), however closely allied to the moving " (D3?B), may

The former indinot be placed on a line with the impulse. cates the sensation, by which he who was apprehended feels himself enveloped and overcome as by an unknown power. It refers to a sensation, which, far

from being an incitement The Q>'S makes

to action, rather impedes and paralyzes. active, the

^5/

passive.

class of subjective means of inspiration in" cludes the tardemah, " sleep " (H^^nn), the chalom, " dream

The second

(Dlbn), and the chazon, "vision'* (ptH).

The Tardemah, which occurs with Adam in Gen. ii. 21, Abraham in Gen. xv. 12, and Saul in 1 Sam. xxvi. 12, is mentioned as a deep sleep, which out.

"Fall"

" sleep "

falls

upon a person from withword with which this

('^Bi) is the constant

construed, and while at one time it says that the Lord caused such a sleep to fall, at another time it says (1 Sam. xxvi. 12) that this deep sleep from the Lord had is

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