Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 476

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THE TESTIMONY OF THE APOSTLES

§ 78.

[Div. Ill

the offering of the body of Jesus Christ," does not refer 1>ack to the

Even

body if

in verse 5, can never be

this inference

accepted,

is

answered with certainty. it can never follow from providing of the Rather the contrary

this that in verse 5 the incarnation, i.e. the

body

for His self-sacrifice,

is

for the exegesis which, as

immediately upon verse

8,

meant.

we

;

saw, makes verse 9 follow

affirms the opposite.

The unde-

niable fault in the translation, or at least in the copies, lent itself easily to express, nevertheless, the original meaning of

the

author in Ps.

first

xl. 6,

and

this accounts for the fact

that in a Greek copy this Greek reading does not need to be changed necessarily to the letter according to the Hebrew

requirement, but can be taken as being equal in sense and thought to the original. This would have been indeed unlawful in

common

quotation by another, but offers not the least xl. and Heb. x. is which at the same from observation,

difficulty since the auctor

one

and

the same.

An

prhnarius of Ps.

appears how, in the apostolic circle, they did not represent to themselves the authority of the Scripture as a

time

it

but as a power flowing forth from an everand ever accompanying the entire It presented itself differently to them than to Scripture. it is an For us this inspiration belongs to the past us. In the it. of outside stand ourselves matter we ended that impression the under were Sanhedrin same way the

petrified power,

vital authority, carrying

;

;

had died out for as many as four centuries. In the apostolic circle, on the other hand, by Jesus' promise that the Holy Ghost would resume his working, they were prepared to entertain a different view, and after the day of Peninspiration

They perceived worked in former which was the Scripture, had re-

tecost they actually lived in another reality.

that this same wondrous power, which had

times and the product of

sumed

its action,

even though in a different way.

By

this

the apostolic circle lived in the Scripture as in a part of its own life. This broke the barrenness of the mechanical con-

and caused the organic contact to resume its liberating and it is in this way that subjectively, from the process

tact,

;

side of the apostles, their liberty in the use of Scripture

is

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