{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These words of John the Baptist are of deep significance. If only people to-day would be a little more candid and admit that they do not really understand what they read! What is the expression “generation of vipers” taken to mean to-day? That John was heaping abuse! But if it is desired to make a deep appeal to human souls, no particular purpose is served by invective. Neither can it be said that John the Baptist's words gave vent to a divine wrath within him—for others too may voice their divine wrath. The meaning here is that John the Baptist was striving to bring home to the Jews: “You no longer understand your true mission; you no longer call upon the forces of the Earth but upon the forces of the Serpent, upon what has been made known to you as the Serpent.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture X","site_heading":"John the Baptist and Earth's Spiritual Transformation","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Aber es hätte auch keinen besonderen Zweck, wenn man den Leuten in die Seele reden will, gleich damit anzufangen, sie mit einem Schimpfwort zu belegen. Und es gibt auch kein besonderes Bild von Johannes, wenn man sagt: Das war eben sein göttlicher Zorn! — Da möchte ich doch das triviale Wort gebrauchen: Schimpfen können andere auch! Auf das kommt es nicht an. Aber in diesem Worte, das viele eben nur als Schimpfwort empfinden, liegt eben die ganze Bedeutung dessen, worauf Johannes die um ihn Seienden aufmerksam machen wollte: Ihr wisset nicht mehr, worinnen die Mission des Jahve-Gottes besteht; denn so, wie ihr nicht appelliert an die Kräfte der Erde, sondern an die Kräfte außerhalb der Erde, seid ihr nicht Kinder Abrahams, denn ihr betet das an, was euch die Schlange gebracht hat. So seid ihr von dem Geschlechte derer, die um euch herum ihre Götter unter den verschiedensten Namen anbeten, die doch aber das meinen, was euch als die «Schlange» charakterisiert ist!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p017"}],"english":["GA 148/1914-01-13/p009"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"partial","length_check":{"de_words":268,"en_words":143,"ratio":0.53,"partial":true},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 148/1914-01-13/p017"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.65,"band":"short","note":"This witness is materially shorter than the original (below 75%). Passages may be omitted without any visible gap. 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