{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1914-07-16/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The New Testament has been written; the New Testament stands there as a record for humanity—but the whole future course of the Earth's evolution will be required for a full understanding of the New Testament to be reached. In the future, men will acquire much knowledge of the external world and of the spiritual world also; and if taken in the right sense it will all contribute to an understanding of the New Testament. The understanding comes about gradually, but the New Testament is written in a simple form so that it can be absorbed and, later, gradually understood. To permeate ourselves with the truth that resides in the New Testament is not without significance, even if we cannot yet understand the truth in its deepest inwardness. Later on, truth becomes cognitional force, but it is already life-force, in so far as it is imbibed in a more or less childlike form. And if the questions we began to consider yesterday are to be understood in the sense in which they are imparted in the New Testament, we need knowledge of greater depth, greater insight into the spiritual world and its mysteries.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Christ's Redemption of Earth's Spiritual Relics","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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Denn es ist nicht bedeutungslos, wenn wir uns durchdringen mit der Wahrheit, die eben im Neuen Testament liegt, auch wenn wir diese Wahrheit noch nicht in ihrem tiefsten Innern verstehen. Später wird die Wahrheit Erkenntniskraft, vorher ist sie aber schon Lebenskraft, indem sie aufgenommen wird, man möchte sagen, in einer mehr oder weniger kindlichen Form. Und gerade die Fragen, die wir gestern angefangen haben zu betrachten, sie erfordern, wenn sie so verstanden werden sollen, wie sie im Neuen Testament mitgeteilt sind, eine immer tiefer und tiefer gehende Erkenntnis, ein Hineinblicken in die geistige Welt und ihre Geheimnisse.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":208,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1914-07-16/p004"}],"english":["GA 155/1914-07-16/p004"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":208,"en_words":192,"ratio":0.92,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6157,"original_word_count":6192,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Christ and the Human Soul","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA155/English/RSP1972/19140716p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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