{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Many people at that time felt an urge to return to the age of innocence—history is far from accurate on this question—to forgo their errant ways, to start life afresh as it had been before the Fall; to refuse participation in the changes and developments of the social order and national life which had taken place since the Fall up to the time of the Roman Empire or the time of Herod the Tetrarch when John the Baptist preached in the wilderness. Those who felt that they must break with the past withdrew from the world and became anchorites. John the Baptist is a case in point. We are told that his meat was locusts[^2] and wild honey and his raiment was of camel hair (Matt. III, 4). He is depicted as the typical desert father, the typical anchorite.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Christ's Cosmic Mission and the Transformation of Faith","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1917-04-10","location":null,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/175/1917-04-10/p014","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. 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Daher ziehen sich solche Menschen, die dieser Anschauung sind, daß man sich eigentlich herausreißen müsse aus dem, was die Welt gebracht hat nach dem Sündenfall, zurück in Wüsten und Einsamkeit, führen ein mönchisches Leben. Das wird uns an Johannes dem Täufer sehr genau geschildert, indem er uns dargestellt wird als lebend in der Wüste und nur sich ernährend von Honig und Tieren, wie man sie in der Wüste findet, mit einem Fell von Kamelhaaren bekleidet. So richtig als der Wüstenmensch, der Einsamkeitsmensch, wird der Täufer Johannes hingestellt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-04-10/p013"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-04-10/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":176,"en_words":139,"ratio":0.79,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8744,"original_word_count":8870,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"A. H. 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