Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 446

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§ 7G.

INSPIRATION IN

took place simultaneously in

all respects,

the cosmos would immediately follow. so.

Since our race does not enter

[Div. Ill

the palingenesis of

This, however,

life at

is

not

one moment, but in

many centuries, and exists, not individualistically aggregate as an of atoms, but in organic unity, the transition from potentia to actus cannot take place except gradually

the course of

and in the course of many centuries; and since each man has no cosmos of his own, but all men together have only one and the same cosmos, our ancestors (see Heb. xi. 40) could not be perfect without us,

i.e.

without us they could not attain unto

the end of their palingenesis, and therefore the apostle Paul

does by no means expect his crown at present, nor yet immediately after his death, but only at the last day, and then simultaneously with all them also that love the appearing of Christ (2 Tim.

The very brings

it

iv. 8).

order,

which

is

founded in the nature of our

race,

to pass, that the re-creation of the body and of the

cosmos tarries

till

the end.

If thus the miracle as such, in

we here consider it, had not appeared until the parousia, the saving power would have brought about none other but a spiritual effect. There would have been regeneration, i.e. palingenesis of the psyche; but that special sense in which

A

power would have become manifest capable of no more. breaking psychically the dominion of sin; but that the same power would be able to abolish the misery, whicli is the result of sin, would have been promised in the word, but would never have been manifested in the deed, and as an unknown X would have been a stone of offence upon which faith would have stumbled. The entire domain of the Christian hope would have remained lying outside of us as incapable of assimilation. This is only prevented by the fact, that already in this present dispensation, by way of model or sample, the power of palingenesis is shown within the domain of matter. In that sense they are called " signs." As such we are shown that there is a power able to check every result of sin in the Hence the rebuke of the elements, the material world. feeding without labor, the healing of the sick, the raising of altogether manifestations of power, which the dead, etc. ;

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