Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 536

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§83.

THE FACTOKS OF INSPIRATION

violence must be done to the

man

of

God

;

[Div. Ill

and with a neu-

tral disposition neither the subject nor the feelings of the sub-

come to light. neutral mind both,

With

ject

it

is

a sympathetic disposition and a

possible that the revelation-organ

should not observe that inspiration takes place, as is seen in many a Psalm and in the prophecy of Caiaphas, John xi. 50 and 52. The strongest possible expression for inspiration Connected with is the "Now this he said not of himself."

itself

this appears also the difference

between

aphoristic,

more con-

We

tinuous, and altogether continuous inspiration.

catch

inspired words from the lips of Zechariah and Simeon, with

whom

it is

restricted to one single inspiration

;

we read

of

prophets and apostles, with whom repeated inspiration frequently bore an official character and in Christ, of whom ;

it is

written that the Spirit not merely descended upon Him,

but also remained upon Him, we see an inspiration in His

human judge

"

consciousness, which ever continues,

(John

But the

but

I hear, I

v. 30).

content at

hand

in their consciousness

By

wise be taken into account. nection

— " As

must

like-

consciousness in this con-

we do not merely understand the action of tlmiking, and observation in the general With a man of genius from the upper strata of society,

also, sensation, perception,

sense.

an Isaiah, the content of this consciousness was, of course, much richer than with Amos, who had lived in the country among herdsmen; and, on the contrary, poorer with James,

like

who

originally

was a fisherman, than with Paul, who had

attended the schools of learning.

If,

in such a conscious-

and representations are already present necessary for the oracle as its component elements,

ness, the conceptions

which are

the oracle needs merely to effect the

new

combination.

If,

on the other hand, they are wanting, the material of imagery for the symbolical manifestation must be borrowed from the content of the imagination.

Though,

thus, the so-called avv-

our memory, our store of things) is in the first all-important factor, the imagination is needful as place the well, and not merely for the images in its portfolio, if we may so express ourselves, as for what, perhaps, the imagination is Trjpri(n<i (i.e.

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