Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 479

Chap.

dogma tion

FOR THE OLD TESTAMENT

II]

of

in

455

does not diverge from that concep-

inspiration

more than one

and

particular,

in

far

so

stands

in need of correction, no one at present will

deny that in the circle of Jesus and His apostles there was a current conception, gainsaid by none, which assigned to the Old Testament, as a Holy Book, a normative authority. Even

who

think that the portrait of Jesus, as the New Testament delineates it, allows us only with difficulty to form an idea of the figure of the Rabbi of Nazareth which those

lurks behind in

it,

confess that Jesus cannot be represented

any other way than

as

having adopted at

this point

the current opinion of pious Israelites of His times.

Even

the accommodation theory has long since been abandoned.

But

frank

the

after

conception, this fact

confession is

that

emptied of

its

Jesus

simple statement that Jesus' opinion on this value,

— that He Himself,

no

less

has simply been mistaken.

As long

Jesus' person.

could not be granted. confession

than His contemporaries,

at the

as this respect

was

retained, the fact

Since this respect has been

lost,

the

made. the same time the weighty consideration

this confession puts in the scale for

this respect for Christ as the his soul,

of the

price of respect for

freely

is

This reveals at

which

that

by the point has no

Hence the confession

become possible

fact has only

shared

significance

and

to

whom,

Son

God

of

him who

finds

in the depths of

therefore, Jesus shines in the full

—

Can He have been mistaken, mistaken with respect to holiest things, in what must be to us the ground and source of our faith Mistaken also, therefore, in assigning, on the basis of the Scripture, a high Messianic character to Himself But the very idea is incompatible with the confession of Jesus' Divine nature. Erring in what is holy is no mere failure in intellect, but glory of the divine mystery.

—

!

!

betrays a state of ruin of one's whole inner being. sinner, therefore, a mistake is natural, but not in one

In the

who

is

Hence, here you face a dilemma, from the stress of which there is no escape. One of two things must follow holy.

:

either, if in the

centrum of what

is

holy Jesus took His stand

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