Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 477

Chap.

II]

SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS RESULT

§ 79.

explained, as

we explained

it

-too

objectively from the identity of

the author in the quotation and in what was quoted. Significance of this Result for the Old Testament

§ 79.

The

period in which the opponents of the Ciiiistian con-

fession exegetically misrepresented the Scriptures, in such a

way

that at length they were said to contain their opinions,

irrevocably past.

such dogmatic exegesis flict is

may

still

be resorted to

for or against the Christ as the

worn

out.

is

In controversies of a sectarian character,

Son

of

;

God,

Negation has destroyed the gain

in the conthis

of this

weapon untrue

and now feels itself sufficiently strong to continue the undermining of orthodox Christendom without the assistance of the authority of the Scripture. This we consider no The loss, since it has rendered the position clear and free. first result is, that one begins by granting that orthodoxy is correct in a most important point, which formerly was combated and derided. Only remember what material was gathered by the waning rationalistic-supranaturalistic period, by which to prove, in an amusingly learned way, that in the Holy Scripture Christ appeared nowhere as a Divine person, and that there was as little mention in the Scripture of a vicarious sacrifice made for sinners. This was altogether a churchly dogma, but no representation of Scripture and thus the hopeless task was undertaken to exegete all such mysteries out of position,

;

the Scripture.

The authority

of Christ or of the apostles

stood too high at the time, in public estimation, to be put aside or to be defied.

"free" ideas,

it

In order to obtain a hearing for one's

was necessary,

at the time, to press the argu-

ment that the churchly representation was forced upon Christ and His apostles, but that, on a more accurate exegesis, it appeared to be foreign to the Scripture. Whatever of protest was entered against this, from the side of the orthodox, was commonly said to have neither rhyme nor reason. It was soon treated with ridicule and in some inconceivable way the opinion became prevalent that, in all honesty, Jesus and His apostles had fostered those very same ideas, which ;

eighteen centuries later, in a jaded period of enervated theo-

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