Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 500

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§ 81.

UNITY AND MULTIPLICITV

[Div. Ill

and the result has fully shown that this wondrous book contains within itself the mystery of being suited to every nation, new to every age, profound for the scholar and By this Scripture the world rich in comforts for the meek. has been changed, and thanks to its power a moral authority has been established among the nations, of which it was correctly prophesied by Kant, that though it might be destroyed in part, it can never be superseded by another equally immutable authority. In this universality this Scripture works an effect which is beyond calculation, and its influence is not capable of analj'sis. There it lies in the midst of the Church Scripture,

and

of the nations.

A

certain mystical tie unites the life of

It makes thereby an imand by that impression it fashions spirits. It does this in very different ways, and no theory is able to trace or to Its light and its interpret the working of that impression. is that the coldness of glow radiate solemnly, and the result human hearts retreats and the darkness is driven back. Such is its majesty, and it is by that majesty, that as one mighty jeypaTrrac, as one overpowering word of God, it

the soul to

it,

as a

phenomenon.

pression,

masters our sense of

self.

In that unity

it

shines as the

Holy Scripture.

He who believes in God cannot represent it otherwise than that there must be a Word of God, one coherent utNot in that anthropomorterance of His Divine thought. word to word, but, in string men which we in phic sense such a sense as becomes the Eternal One,

who

is

not subject

and full unity of to a succession of moments, the Holy Scripture And in that sense the conception. speaks of the Logos of God, which is something entirely different from his spoken words QrjfjLaTo), and which in in the rich

merely the psyche of the thought, indelanguage and sound. If man is created after the Image of God, and thus disposed to communion with the Eternal, then this Word of Grod also must be able to be grasped by man and even after his fall into sin, this Word of God must go out to him, though now in a way suited to his condition. This takes place now.

itself

indicates

pendent

of its somatic clothing in

;

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