Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 502

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§ 81.

UNITY AND MULTIPLICITY

[Div. Ill

God, and consequently possesses the Word of God. That God's Word is not in the Scripture, but that the Scripture itself is the photograph of God's Word, does not refer therefore to its formal inspiration, but simply states, that you cannot miss any part of that Scripture without marring the picture, the photograph, the etching, the copy, which holds beTo this unity fore our eyes the full image of God's word.

lation of

faith stretches forth its hands.

From

i

this unity of conception

which the child of God gives hides in that wondrous book unity this How itself captive. Only all explanation. refuses which remains a mystery with and distance, proper the when you stand before it, at multipliits upon gaze you the faith-eye of the connoisseur city of tints and lines, the full image discovers itself stereoThen you see it. Then you can no scopically to you. The eye of your soul has caught it. longer not see it.

flows the Divine authority, to

all its glory it speaks to you. But, of course, the multiplicity of that appearance does The Holy not cease to exist on account of that unity.

In

Scripture

is

not abstractly transcendent.

It is this in

some

apocalyptical parts, but by no means when taken as a whole. And as a protest must be entered against every effort to take the revelation of God's consciousness to man as being simply immanent, as though it consisted merely of the unnoticed influences upon our inner being, equally strong must our protest

be against the effort to interpret the Holy Scripture as a transcendent phenomenon standing outside of our human Here, also, the parallel maintains itself between reality. As in the Mediator the incarnate and the written Logos. and appears human, the to itself weds nature Divine the factor its form and figure, so also the Divine our of garment the in itself clothes Scripture Holy of the reality. human our to itself holds and form of thought, This is what our old theologians meant by their combination of the first and secondary authors, but it is something

before us in

when, on Sinai, God with His own finger engraves in human words His law upon

that goes yet farther

;

for even

the tables of stone, the revelation remains not absolutely

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