{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-04-26/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Some historians maintain that only slowly, through the power of the church, did these documents come to be appreciated. Reverence for the Bible arose only gradually. It is said that the Bible cannot stand up to close historical investigation. Looking at events that took place in the early Christian centuries, the conclusion is drawn that the Ecumenical Council of Nicea[^2] decided which Gospels were true, and there it was ordained: “These are the true Holy Scripts.” Unprejudiced investigation does not bear this out. Looking back we come to personalities who lived in the early days of Christendom. From them we learn that, for example, in the year A.D. 160 a so-called harmonizing of the Gospels took place. This meant collating the Gospels and bringing them to present a uniform picture, a procedure that was later repeated. And indeed, careful examination of the Gospels as they were in the second century showed that already then they contained what we know as the New Testament. We find that the early Church Fathers in particular spoke with the deepest reverence about the Bible, which suggests that they certainly had the belief that the Bible had been inspired by a higher spiritual source. Already in Origen[^3] we encounter the same reverent approach to the biblical records as is later to be found in the faithful, whether of learned or of simple faith.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIII. 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Wenn wir zurückgehen in die ersten christlichen Jahrhunderte und die Tatsachen prüfen, dann kommen wir zu dem Urteil, daß bei dem Konzil zu Nikäa festgestellt worden ist, welches die richtigen Evangelien sind, und daß durch Machtspruch dekretiert worden ist: Das sind die heiligen Schriften.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":94,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-04-26/p007"},{"locus":"GA 55/1907-04-26/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Vor einer unbefangenen geschichtlichen Betrachtung kann das nicht bestehen. Wir werden zu Persönlichkeiten geführt, die in den alten Zeiten des Christentums gelebt haben. Wir finden dann in ihren Mitteilungen, daß zum Beispiel im Jahre 160 n. Chr. eine sogenannte Evangelienharmonie gemacht wurde, das heißt eine Zusammenstellung der verschiedenen Evangelien, so daß sie ein einheitliches Bild geben sollten. Später ist dies noch öfters gemacht worden, und wir können finden, wenn wir die Evangelien vom zweiten Jahrhundert sorgfältig prüfen, daß auch dasjenige hineingearbeitet worden ist, was wir jetzt als Inhalt des Neuen Testamentes kennen. Wir können noch weiter zurückgehen, bis zu den ersten Kirchenvätern. Wenn wir gerade diese kritisch prüfen, so zeigt sich uns, wie sie mit ungeheurer Ehrfurcht von der Bibel sprechen, mit einer Ehrfurcht, die die Annahme zuläßt, daß sie geglaubt haben, die Bibel sei von höherer Geistigkeit inspiriert. Wir können bis zu Origines zurückgehen und bemerken dann, wie er in derselben Art und mit derselben Ehrfurcht von den biblischen Büchern spricht. Und wenn wir einzelne Worte nehmen, die sogar nur derjenige mitteilt, von dem nicht mit Unrecht gesagt wird, daß er noch ein Hörer des Apostels Johannes gewesen sei, Matthäus, dann finden wir, daß aus seiner Seele etwas herausspricht, was wir in demselben Sinne zusammenfügen können mit dem, was später die Stimmung der Gläubigen, auch der gelehrtesten Gläubigen, gegenüber den Evangelien war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":223,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-04-26/p008"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-04-26/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":317,"en_words":228,"ratio":0.72,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.88,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5697,"original_word_count":6439,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19070426p01.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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