William Law: Kaksiosainen ihminen

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William Law: Kaksiosainen ihminen

ViestiKirjoittaja mies » 13 Kesä 2016, 07:57

William Law, k. 1761 kirjoitti teoksessaan Spirit of Law, seuraavasti:
Now this being the inward, essential state of every man born into the world, having in himself all that is elected, and all that is repropated by God, hence it is, that in order to publish the Truth and certainty of that twofold nature in man, on which it is grounded, that the Spirit of God, in Holy Scripture, represents this matter to us by such outward figures, as are yet in themselves not figurative, but real proofs of it.

This is first of all done under the figures of Cain and Abel, the two first births from Adam, where the one is murdered by the other, hereby demonstrating to us, by this contrariety and difference of these two births, the inward real state of the father of them, namely, that the same twofold nature was in him, that discovered itself in these two first births from him.

The same thing is, age after age, set forth in variety of figures, more especially in Ishmael and Isaac, in Esau and Jacob. And all this, only further to confirm and establish this great truth, viz, that such strife and contrariety as appeared in the sons of the same father, were not only outward representations, but full proofs of that inward strife and contrariety, which not only existed in their fathers, but universally in every human creature.

Lyhyesti, Kain ja Abel, Ismael ja Iisak, Esau ja Jaakob, pojat, joilla oli sama isä, olivat kuvaavat kaksiosaista ihmistä, jonkakaltaisia jokainen ihminen on. (Kenellä sitten onkaan vallalla Kain, Esau tai Ismael; kenellä Abel, Iisak tai Jakob)
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