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New Testament for qualifying Jesus-Christ as the “beloved son" (cf.
Luc 20:13) — and t2 pneymatikÀ. Particularly interesting for us is
that last word which Leisegang used as a basis for his own analysis
of prophecy. In his book Pneuma Hagion (p. 114 ss.) we find him
commenting in depth a crucial text on that subject, St Paul's First
Epistle to the Corinthians 14:1—3:
Text 4: Di3kete t§n ÈgÀphn, zhlo‡te dÇ t2 pneymatikÀ,
m©llon dÇ æna prochteÿhte. ã g2r lal%n gl3ssØ oœk Ènur3poij
laleì Èll2 ue~, oœdeÆj g2r Èkoÿei, pneÿmati dÇ laleì
myst0riaÞ ã dÇ prochteÿwn Ènur3poij laleì oøkodom§n kaÆ
parÀklhsin kaÆ paramyuåan. (Follow after charity (der Liebe) and
desire spiritual gifts (den Geistesgaben), but rather that ye may prophesy
(dass ihr weissagen möget). For he that speaketh in an unknown
tongue (mit Zungen redet) speaketh not unto men, but unto
God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh
mysteries (sondern durch einen Geist redet er Geheimnisse). But he
that prophesieth (Wer aber weisagt) speaketh unto men to edification
(zur Erbauung), and exhortation (Tröstung), and comfort (Ermahnung)).
In this text, Paul distinguishes between two languages: one is
incomprehensible between men and only suitable between God and
men: it is Pneuma or Spirit itself; the other is understandable between
men and is called: prophecy. Though these two languages are
different, both can be uttered by the prophet himself. He is, among
men, the only one to be fully inspired by the Spirit or Pneuma and
to be able to transmit such a pneuma to other men.
The prophet's role according to St. Paul is somehow the role
Anica invests the poet with in her own writings. But poetry is nothing
without metrics, as she explains in texts about Pindar or Njegoš.
Metrics is the proper poetical expression of divinity in the sense
it reveals and uncovers its hidden order. That's a thought she
shares with other great figures of Third Humanism like Karl Kerényi
who writes: “Jene so melodisch gewordene Urform ist die wortreiche
Umschreibung von unaussprechlichen Geheimnissen". 6 The
context of that statement is a study by Kerényi on the importance of
Mystic in Hölderlin's Hyperion. Regarding Hölderlin, let me recall
here that he appears to be the ideal figure of Third Humanism praised
by most of its authors. Anica Saviã-Rebac, for instance, refers
to him very often in her writings. Hölderlin devoted several studies
to Metrics. In a letter written by Bettina von Arnim to her friend
6 K. Kerényi, “Hölderlins Mysterien", in F. Hölderlin, Hyperion, Woemerveer,
1941, p. 237.
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