Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 464

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INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURE

§ 77.

in all its official confessions,

which we do not mean

and views

it

[Div. Ill

to this day.

to say that the later

By

outworking of

this conception may not become open to severe criticism, but from it, nevertheless, the result may and must be drawn that to appeal to the Old Testament as to a decisive Divine authority, as is still done this day by those who hold fast to the Scripture, finds not merely a support in the example of

became prevalent in the Christian Churches by His example and upon the authority of His name, and by His example is ever yet maintained in the face of all dis-

Jesus, but

solving criticism

;

not as the result of scientific investiga-

tion, but as the fruit of a higher inworking in the spiritual

consciousness.

The

objection to this, derived from Matt. v. 21-45, scarcely

needs a refutation. In this pericope, the Lord declares very emphatically that the ancients have said thus and so, and that

He

puts His sayings over against these.

But

this

an antithesis between Jesus and the Old Testament on the contrary by His accurate exegesis He but maintains the Old Testament over against the false exegeses In this connection Jesus of the Sanhedrin of His day. speaks nowhere of a Scripture, but of an oral tradition, and of sayings and in this oral tradition of the ancients the commandment had either been limited to its letter, or weakened by addition, or falsified by an incorrect antitliesis, and what was a Divine dispensation had been made Against this Jesus ranges Himself with to be a fixed rule. does

not form ;

;

That a man must was the simple applica-

the spiritual interpretation of the law.

not look upon a

woman

tion of the tenth

to desire her

commandment

to the seventh, in connection

with Job xxxi. 1 and Psalm cxix. 37. Likewise, the love of an enemy is not put by Jesus as something new above or against the Old Testament, but the narrow and pregnant meaning given by the Sanhedrin to the expression neighbor It is combated by Jesus in the spirit of Proverbs xxv. 21. is, indeed, entirely inconceivable how the absurd idea that Jesus here placed Himself in opposition to the Old Testament, could be entertained for a single moment, by those

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