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The Christ as the representative of the new covenant had to increase; John, being only his forerunner, had to decrease.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Gospel of John as an Initiation Document I","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-02-12","location":null,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/97/1906-02-12/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2000","book_title":"The Christian Mystery","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA097/English/CMP2000/19060212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/97/1906-02-12/p011"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/97/1906-02-12/p011","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Notizen von einunddreißig Einzelvorträgen mit sechs Fragenbeantwortungen","evidence_translation":"Notes of thirty-one single lectures with six question-answerings","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 97/1906-02-12/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Nun sollte der Mensch wieder hinaufgeführt werden zu dem Verständnis dessen, daß das Leben der Sieger über den Tod ist. Es erschien der Vorläufer, der Täufer Johannes. Der Täufer verkündet, daß das Alte, das noch ganz im Zeichen dessen steht, was die göttlichen Mächte einst hervorgebracht haben, nun durch ein neues Reich abgelöst werden wird. Bisher hieß es: Der Gott wird euch vernichten, wenn ihr gegen sein Gesetz handelt. - Das neue Reich ist aber dasjenige, was der Mensch in sich selber erleben kann, wenn er den Gott erlebt. Die Vorstellung des Alten Bundes ist: Wir haben uns unter Gottes Gebot zu fügen. Der Neue Bund sagt: Der Mensch soll dem Gott im Inneren freiwillig folgen. Das ist die Liebe zum Guten. Sie wird prophetisch vorherverkündet, sie muß zunehmen. Christus, der Repräsentant des Neuen, muß zunehmen, Johannes, der nur sein Vorläufer ist, muß abnehmen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/97/1906-02-12/p011"}],"english":["GA 97/1906-02-12/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":144,"en_words":156,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.14,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2352,"original_word_count":2056,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2000","book_title":"The Christian Mystery","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA097/English/CMP2000/19060212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 97/1906-02-12/p011"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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