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§ 82.

THE INSTRUMENTS OF INSPIKATION

[Div. Ill

weak in impulse or word is needed here concerning HS'ltt (Mar'ah, vision), which does not stand on a line with Htn^ (Mach'zeh, vision). The mar'ah is to be

to the intensity of the action exerted, are

overwhelming

in their pressure.

A

single

distinguished from the cliazon, in so far that the mar'ah seldom plays any part in the sphere of psychic-visions, and rather

Chazah itself. something that requires effort, and in so far indicates the psychical weariness which the seeing of visions occasioned, while Ra'ah of itself indicates nothing more than

indicates the seeing of a 7'eality which reveals is

a gazing at

the perception of what passes before us. appears, the seeing of this form or image

is

When

a

called the

Mar eh Mar ah.

After Special mention of this Mar' all occurs with Moses. him no prophet arose (Dent, xxxiv. 10) " whom the Lord

knew face to face"; and since this "face to face" is chosen by the holy apostle, by which to express the immediate knowledge of the blessed, with Moses also it must be taken to

mean

bers

xii.

In Numa seeing of the reality of heavenly things. 6-8 it is said in so many words, that the Lord

reveals Himself to other prophets in a vision or in a dream,

but "my servant Moses is not so." With him the Lord speaks "mouth to mouth, even apparently (HS!'^'?!), and not and the similitude (HJIXSri) of the Lord in dark speeches shall he behold." ^ We need not enter here upon a study of the character of this appearing of Jehovah, but we may say that this is no seeing in the visionary condition, but rather the ;

away of the curtain behind which heavenl}" realities withdraw themselves from our gaze. This was a temporary return of the relation in which sinless man in paradise saw Not continuously, but only in those moments his God. which it pleased the Lord to reveal Himself to Moses in " with open face." A form of revelation which, of course, had nothing in common with the Christophany or Angelophany. falling

noteworthy that nx-\:; is here used for common vision. A deviawhich comes under the general rule, that a sharply drawn distinction conceptions and a consenuent constant usage of words is foreign to the 1

It is

tion,

of

Scripture.

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