Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 84

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§ 37.

LXX

13 the

translated

ETYMOLOGY AND it

by the word

[Div. II

ISelv,

Along-

to see.

side of ^tt^ (to hear) as perception through the ear, stands DlbtS^ Hlf^T in 3?T (to see) as perception through the eye.

Gen. xxxvii. 14 and

The

ing one.

and others

Fiirst

split or

Uw^

3JT in Esther

entirely different

ii.

11 are in mean-

meaning attributed to

in Ezek. xxxviii. 14, as

if

VT by

the idea to separate,

disband were prominent, might yet originally have to see, even as cernere

coincided with the meaning of the verb in its connection

with

But if on this ground the conto know and to see can scarcely know cannot be said to be of the same

Kpiveiv.

nection between the conceptions

be denied, the verb origin with

all

to

the forms of the idea

BeSopfcevai, -spicere, (JKeir-

To

to see.

'Opav, ySXeVety,

differentiated conception.

see is a finely dedop^ai,

6-\}ro/xai,

(in aKeTrreadaL)^ etc., all express a

certain perception through the eye, but in different ways.

object can present itself to us in such a way, that it

and thus

see

it,

we

while our eye did not look for

another time our eyes

may

An

perceive it.

At

look without desiring to discover

any one object. And lastly there is a looking, by which we employ our powers of vision in seeking and investigating a The condefinite object, until we find and understand it. ception of the verb

know,

is

to see,

included in the root of the verb

definitely this last

kind of seeing

to look for something, in order to find itself

it.

to

premeditatively

Herein

lies of

the transition to the conceptions of investigation and

of trying to

know,

this relation

of knowing,

glass darkly, <yv6!)<Tt<f

as result of

which we have the seeing or

Revelation in holy Scripture throws further light

knoiving.

upon form

:

by placing before us the ryv(b(n<i as a lower and as a ^XeireaOai but only in part, in a

and over against

this

making the completed

to appear as a OeaaOai, a seeing close at hand, in full

reality, Trpoacoirov Trpo<; TrpoacoTrov (1 Cor. xiii. 8-12). If in the

word,

we

second place we consult the accepted use of the

find the conceptions of knoiving

and understanding

separated from each other by a clearly perceptible boundary.

The accepted use

word

know has both a general and a limited sense. In the question, Do you knoiv that the mail-boat has suffered shipwreck ? is only meant. Have you of the

to

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