Autor: Voegelin, Eric

Buch: Israel and Revelation

Titel: Israel and Revelation

Stichwort: Psalmen - messianische Hoffnung -> Hebräerbrief

Kurzinhalt: The author of Hebrews returned to the original "I will be his father, and he shall be my son" of II Samuel 7:14, as well ...

Textausschnitt: Our selection of examples not only maps out the topics of imperial symbolism but also conveys the future development with which they abound. For the imperial Psalms were included in the hymnbook of the Second Temple, not as souvenirs of a dead past, but as the expression of Messianic hope. As the Davidic Empire had emerged from Israel and gained a life of its own, so from the Davidic Empire emerged the symbol of the Lord's Anointed, of Yahweh's Messiah, with a life of its own. The fading memories of the mundane climax could be filled with new substance from the eschatological hopes for a spiritual savior king who would deliver Israel forever from the tribulations by its enemies. To be sure, as Martin Buber has seen rightly,
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100/9 The imperial symbolism flickered for the last time in the Messianic hopes of the Solomon Psalms. Then it was extinguished by the theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews. The author of Hebrews returned to the original "I will be his father, and he shall be my son" of II Samuel 7:14, as well as to the related passage in Psalm 2:7, but he eliminated the institutional implications of the Nathan vision. The Son of God, the Messiah of Yahweh, was no longer the head of a Judaite clan; and the cosmic god no longer presided over a mundane empire. The house of David had been transformed into the house of God the Father, to be built with man as the material, by the Son. (310; Fs) (notabene)