Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 482

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§ 79.

and time, may

SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS RESULT

this ever authorize one to

devoid of this

deny

And yet He must have instinct, if He could have taken

instinct for truth

?

[Div. Ill

Him

also the

been entirely such a struct-

ure of fictitious and designedly untrue representations as the

ground

of that truth,

which

He

confessed and for which

He

died.

In the second place, such error could not have been in-

nocently

made

for the reason stated above, viz. that Jesus

accepted the entire program of His Scripture.

The Old Testament

Jesus which

it

after

Him.

life at

the hand of the

Scripture had a meaning for

could have had for no other, either before or

From

the fatal standpoint of an error no other

conclusion can be formed than that in the program of the

'Ebed Jahvah, of the Messiah, and of the

own and that He

Jesus wrongly saw the plan of His

man

of sorrows

existence, public

labored under an when, on the ground of the Scripture, He conformed Himself to this. His great life-work, then, is no result of a Divine impulse, but a role in a drama which He found projected by some one else, and of which He imagined HimThus if this error is granted, self to be the chief actor. it entails with it a condemnation of Jesus' whole interpretaNot only His interpretation of the Scripttion of His task. ure, but His entire position in history has then been one mistake. He then has walked in a dream. A beautiful dream wrought into His phantasy by the Old Testament. By this, however. His life and sacrifice forfeit the serious character of being a moral reality sprung from God. And the third reason, why the idea of an innocent mistake cannot be entertained, is evident from the very conflict of our times. At first the Old Testament was antagonized by means of the New, in order on ethical grounds to exhibit The religious and ethical the lower standard of the Old. representations of the Old Testament must be repelled, in order that Christ and the New Testament might find an entrance as the principium of what was higher and holier. Now one does not hesitate on the ground of his own religious and moral sense to apply his criticism to Christ and the New

appearance, passion and glory, illusion

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