Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 548

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THE FORMS OF INSPIRATION

§ 84.

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on the other hand, you place the lyric singer of the imprecatory Psalms under the absolute antithesis between that which chooses for and against God if you separate him from his temporal-concrete surroundings, and transfer him to the absolute-eternal, in which everything that sides with God lives ;

and has our

love,

and everything that chooses eternally against

bears the mark of death and rouses our hatred, then the " becomes rule, " Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee ?

God

the only applicable standard, and whatever departs from this When Jesus speaks of the rule falls short of love for God.

man who should have a millstone hanged about his neck, that he may be drowned in the depths of the sea, the same fundamental tone which sounds in all the imprecatory Psalms is sounded also by Him. As unholy and repulsive as the imprecatory Psalms are in the lips of those who apply them to our relative universal human life, they are solemnly true and

when you take your stand in the absolute palingenesis, where God's honor is the keynote of the harmony of the human heart. This is naturally denied by all those who refuse to believe in an eternal condemnation of those who continue but he who in unison in their enmity against the Almighty

holy

;

with the Scripture speaks of " a going into everlasting pain," from this absolute point of view cannot resent the imprecatory Psalm, provided it is taken as a lyric.

(2) Chohnatic inspiratiori certainly belongs to didactic poetry, but forms, nevertheless, a class by itself, which, out-

domain of poetry, can make its appearance in Under Chokmatic inspiration, the parables, too, are and other sayings of Christ which are not handed down

side of the prose. classed,

to us at least in a fixed form. in

what

When

the question

is

asked

particular didactic poetry distinguishes itself from

non-didactic, eesthetici say that the didacticus

and then looks

for the

while the non-didactic initiative arise

first

thinks,

image in which to clothe his thoughts, lyricist, epicist, or

dramatist feels the

from phantasy, and only derives the form from

the ideal image.

In

itself,

inspiration

is

much

less

strong

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