The early Persian phase dates from the time of the Sassanids, but in its present form is not earlier than the seventh century of the Christian Era. ; "The London Tablet", 1881, April to July), a scheme to consecrate each day of the week to a particular creative act of God, so as to do away with the previous consecration of the weekdays to the several heathen gods. Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 26. 4: And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness. And, as the human mind naturally pictures to itself the first rise of the world as it still arises every day and every year, a distinctively Hebrew myth of the first rise, or the creation, of the universe should be a picture of the early morning and the springtime in Palestine or the Syro- Arabian desert. The Fathers, the early ecclesiastical writers, the Scholastics, and the more recent commentators would have been wrong in their endeavours to explain each sentence and even every word of Genesis 1 in the same strict way in which they interpret the most sacred passages of Scripture. Their difference in form is striking, though not fully decisive. The word derives its name from the Greek roots hexa-, meaning "six", and hemer-, meaning "day". And God saw that it was good. Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback — especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads. ejus" in P.L., CLXVII, 199), and Abelard ("Expos. Such an assumption concerning a profane ancient tradition implies the admission of a greater miracle than is demanded by a supernatural revelation in the strict sense of the word. The word derives its name from the Greek roots hexa-, meaning "six", and hemer-, meaning "day". C. Kuehn and J. Baggarly, eds. Still, there remains the general division into the palæozoic, the mesozoic, and the cenozoic strata; the first are characterized by their remains of carboniferous plants; the second by traces of amphibious and fish life; the third show remnants of mammals. He admits again a simultaneous formation of the world, so that the six days indicate an order of dignity angels, the firmament, the earth, etc. 7.
), and Clement of Alexandria (Stromata V.14), who have dealt only cursorily with the Hexaemeron problem, we find patrons of the literal interpretation of Genesis 1 in such writers as Ephraem (Opp., ed. Nihil Obstat. And God saw that it was good. ), and Schäfer ("Bibel und Wissenschaft", Münster, 1881, pp.
; Wisd., ix, 9; Sirach 24, refer to the personal Divine Wisdom what the Hexaemeron attributes to the word of God; Proverbs 8:23 sqq. The watery chaos of the Hexaemeron, its division into the waters above and the waters below, and its separation between the waters and the dry land, do not agree with the sandy and desert country of the Hebrews. Completeness and clearness render it advisable to give the text of both of these additions. (a) It is urged that in Marduk's work the primeval light, the primeval flood, the production of heaven by the division of the primeval flood, the order of the creative acts, the Divine admonitions addressed to men after their creation, and the creation by a word are so many points of contact between the Hebrew and the Babylonian cosmogony. From these sprang first Lalimu and Lahamu, more probably the personifications of dawn and twilight than the monsters and demons with which popular mythology identified them. ", II, 24; "Confess.
This article is about the theological concept. Among the Latin Fathers, Ambrose and Augustine of Hippo wrote some of the earliest extant hexameral literature. Father von Hummelauer ("Commentarius in Genesim", Paris, 1895) feels convinced, on the one hand, that the Hexaemeron speaks of six natural days, and that, on the other hand, it does not oppose the certain results of science. But this explanation is hardly in keeping with the Biblical account of the six days. After a long interval Ansar and Kisar were produced, the personified ideas of the above and the below, or of heaven and earth in their most general acceptation. The Babylonian stories taken together describe the primeval waters as spontaneously generative; the Hebrew acount represents the material of the universe as lying waste and lifeless, and as not assuming order or becoming productive of life until the going forth of the Divine command. We call these interpreters non- Concordist, not because they do not explain the difficulties in an absolutely possible way, but because they have no regard for the harmony between the inspired record and the laws of nature. The author of IV Esdr., vi, 38 sqq., is excessive in the literalness of his interpretation; he also supplements the Biblical account of creation with profane Jewish traditions. [CDATA[
Reusch, who had been a Concordist in the first editions of his great work, became an Idealist in the third edition ("Bibel und Natur", Freiburg, 1870). ", lib. In its Biblical setting it is preceeded by the account of the First Creation, and is followed by the mention of the seventh day, or the Day of Rest. We must, therefore, rely on the principles of Catholic hermeneutics and the writings of Catholic interpreters for our understanding of the Hexaemeron. For our present purpose it suffices to keep in mind a summary of the Babylonian traditions. The history of its exegesis shows that even the greatest minds differ in their opinion as to its real meaning. and trans. Der Titel Hexameron bezieht sich auf die biblischen sechs Tage der Schöpfung. But we ask: can the Babylonian story claim to be the source of the Biblical account? +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York. Maas, A. Dezember 2019 um 10:14 Uhr bearbeitet. theol. The Hexaemeron proper deals with the six days of the earth's formation, or the so-called Second Creation.
Professor J. P. Arendzen has treated of the various cosmogonic ideas of the principal ancient and modern nations in the article COSMOGONY.
The Babylonian course of cosmic development is interrupted by the opposition of Tiamtu; the Hebrew Hexaemeron proceeds uninterruptedly from the less to the more perfect. Similar views concerning the origin of the Biblical cosmogony are advanced by Basil (P.G., XXIX, 5), Ambrose (P.L., XIV, 131 sqq. natur." are due to the waters of the Deluge. Verse 11: And he said: Let the earth bring forth the green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07310a.htm.
Father Pianciani has expressed the view that the six days of the Hexaemeron, though natural days, may not be continuous days; they may be picked out from among the long geological periods to which they respectively belong in such a way as to illustrate, as it were, the work going on in the several formative ages.
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