Scriptural Contemplation

h) Matthew 16:17.

reject The text continues from the previous page: "...push it from themselves—reject [it]", that cannot take away the dignity of the work itself. The physician offers his medicine Artzeney from a glass: to one who accepts it and uses it rightly, and to another who pushes it away from himself, or hinders its effect through a wicked way of life. Should the rejected medicine, for that reason, lose its worthiness and internal excellence? Whoever would say that the knowledge Erkäntniß attained by Festus, Felix, and Agrippa was a natural, fleshly, or devilish science original: "Wissenschafft." In this period, the term referred broadly to a systematic body of knowledge or understanding rather than modern laboratory science., cannot be seen as anything other than an insulter of the great God. It cannot be called natural or fleshly: for here too, what Christ says holds true: Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. h) For what does a person know of and by himself concerning Christ and His benefits? It cannot be called devilish either, because it does not have its origin Uhrsprung An archaic spelling of "Ursprung," meaning source or origin. from the Devil, but from God.

But, one will say: The Devil nevertheless has just such knowledge as the unconverted, if indeed one is to trust James original: "Jacobo," the Latinized form for the Apostle James., who says that the devils also believe.