Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 510

486 day.

THE INSTRUMENTS OF INSPIRATION

§ 82.

With

respect to this external address

Num.

[Div. Ill

vii.

89

where the very place is indicated from which the voice went forth. There we read: "Then he (Moses) heard the Voice speaking unto him /row above the mercy -seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, /rom between The distincthe tivo cherubim; and he spake unto him." tion between this external address and the iriternal address

is especially noteworthy,

allied to

it,

exists principally in this, that Avith the internal

address the voice of the Lord

is

observed as coming up from

within, while with the external address a perception arises At the foot of Sinai the that the sounds come from ivithout.

people hear the voice coming down to them from above. Moses hears the voice come to him from between the Samuel observes the voice from the side of cherubim. At the ba]3tism of Jesus the bystanders Eli's chamber.

heard the voice from heaven. According to 2 Pet. i. 17, Peter heard the voice on Tabor " from the excellent glory," etc. Of course the addresses of Jesus on the way to Damascus and on the Island of Patmos do not lie in the same line. After His ascension, Jesus bears somatically, also, our human The question with regard to His speaking from nature. heaven, therefore, is simply whether Jesus descended in order to speak with Paul from the ordinary distance, or whether this

way similar to what is indicated to us With the speaking of God in the address,

speaking took place in a

by the telephone. on the other hand, the somatic remains wanting hence, also, the organs of speech by which to form the words. The question, therefore, here remains whether indeed this sound of a voice was produced by the vibration of the air-waves, or whether in the tympanum of the hearer a sensation was occasioned similar to what we occasion by the inflection of ;

" He that planted the ear, shall he not hear ? Inj that formed the eye, shall he not see? " (Ps. xciv. 9).

our voice.

He like

manner,

is

not God, who has established for us so wondrous waves of air, tympa-|

a relation of voice, organs of speech,

num, auditory nerve and consciousness, Himself able to use each of these, His creatures, and apply them in like manner as He appointed and maintains them for us from moment

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