Autor: Voegelin, Eric

Buch: Israel and Revelation

Titel: Israel and Revelation

Stichwort: Jesai: Berufung; Offenbarung - Reinigung; Frage: Verhältnis des alten Israel zum neuen?

Kurzinhalt: revelation: not a piece of information, but the beginning of a purification; is the old Covenant not dead when the people with whom it was made has died

Textausschnitt: 21/13 The contents of the revelation (6:6-13) is, therefore, not a piece of information, but the beginning of a purification. The revelation will indeed be of no avail when even the human instrument is unclean. Hence, the seraphim touch the lips of Isaiah with a red-hot stone, so that his guilt will be removed (6:6-7). Only when the instrument of transmission for divine being is cleansed can Isaiah hear the divine voice itself and put himself in its presence as Moses did in the thornbush revelation (6:8). And from the voice he receives the terrifying order to tell "this people" (6:9): (437; Fs)
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23/13 If we pursue Isaiah's revelation to this point, however, the question must be asked: What has this new Israel to do with the old one? The continuity seems to be broken by an epoch as incisive as the Sinaitic revelation. Is the old Covenant not dead when the people with whom it was made has died? And is "Israel" not about to become the name of whatever human society lives in historical form, in the presence under God? We seem to have reached the limits of the Covenant symbol. (438; Fs) (notabene)