Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 573

;

Chap.

II]

GRAPHICAL INSPIRATION

§ 85.

in their choice

between several,

549

ofttinies contradictory, repre-

In the study of the mystical background of this

sentations.

mind had

history their

And

to be

enabled to perceive the Divine

what had matured in mind and their mind's utterance had to be shaped after the mould of the Divine purpose that was to be To some extent realized by the Scripture in His Church. motives.

finally in the writing of

their mind, their

it

can be said that none but natural factors were here at work. happens in our times that an author gets hold of a

It often

correct tradition, consults trustworthy documents, writes as he

ought

to write, obtains a just insight into tlie

mysticism that

hides in history, thus forms for himself a true representation,

But in this case and commits this faithfully to writing. these factors were subject to higher leadings, and upon choice, inventiveness, study of conditions, forming of representations, insight into the mysticism of history, and upon the final writing, the Holy Spirit worked effectively as a leading, directing and determining power; but the subjectivity was not

lost.

No

one single subject could receive

impression of a mighty event.

To

in himself the

image from all sides, one must place himself at several points and distances. Hence we find in the Holy Scripture not infrequently more than one narrative of the same group of events, as for instance these are no repetitions, but rise from in the four Gospels full

see an

;

the fact that in the consciousness of one subject the interpretation,

and hence

also the reproduction, of the incident

necessarily different from those of his fellow-laborer. is

the life of history.

It gives

what has been received

no notarial

acts,

in the consciousness,

was This

but reproduces

and does

this

not with that precision of outline which belongs to architecture, but

with the impressionistic certainty of

life.

This

excludes by no means the possibility that the writings thus

prepared were afterward reviewed by second or third editors and here and there enriched by insertions and additions. From their content this very fact is evident. Graphic inspiration must then have been extended to these editors, since they indeed delivered the writings, in the form in which they were to be possessed by the Church. This gives rise to the

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