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PublicationJuhász Tamás2023Pages: 144--151

„Minél jobban érzi magát valamely földi egyház a világban, annál nagyobb a veszedelem, amely fenyegeti, mert ez azt jelenti, hogy elszakadóban van láthatatlan életfeltételeitől, láthatatlan alapjától. Az önmagában álló és az önmagában élő egyház hamarosan a hitnek és az evangéliumnak álpótlékává válik és hamarosan oda húzódik a polgári jóllét közelébe s a Kijelentéstől elszakadva. Szociális, vagy nemzeti hasznossági egyletté válik. Mindezekből egészen világos, hogy bármely látható egyház a láthatatlan egyház nélkül lehet nagyszerű szervezet, de nem egyház. [...] Amelyik egyház földi hatalommal és eszközökkel, emberi találékonysággal és megalkuvásokkal az Új-Jeruzsálemet, Isten országát megvalósíthatónak véli, annak az egyháznak nincs szüksége az isteni kegyelemre, vagy ha igen, akkor azt egyszer s mindenkorra birtokba vette és emberi-papi adminisztráció alatt tartja.

PublicationBalogh Csaba2013631Pages: 1--18

Isa 8:16 is considered a key reference regarding the formation of the book of Isaiah and the role of prophetic disciples in this process. This article argues, however, that originally this verse had a more limited significance. The instruction to which v. 16 refers is to be identified with vv. 12-15 rather than an early ‘book’ of Isaiah. The expression ‘the instructed ones’ (of YHWH rather than the prophet) is applied to the prophet’s audience. This term reflects Isaiah’s characteristic view of prophesying as an act of instruction and prophecy as a form of teaching, and it does not presuppose the existence of any prophetic school. The view that sealing the instruction would allude to preserving prophetic teaching for the posterity is discounted here in favour of understanding the symbolic act as a metaphor from the legal sphere refering to authentication, with no inherent temporal significance.

PublicationBalogh Csaba2014644Pages: 519--538

In studies on the composition of prophetic literature, the larger textual layers reinterpreting earlier texts, the so-called Fortschreibungen, received much attention. It is well-known that beside these larger literary elaborations prophetic books also contain shorter explanatory interpolations, often called glosses, which intend to clarify a particular imagery of the prophecy (e.g., Isa 9:14). A systematic reading of these short annotations has been neglected, however, in studying the formation of prophetic books. The present article reconsiders the Isaiah-Memoir from this perspective. It identifies editorial interpolations in three distinct pericopes, Isa 8:2, 8:6-7a and 8:23b. It is argued here that the identification of such explanatory additions is the key to understanding notorious textual complexities. Moreover, it points out that these interpolations tend to expose recognisable patterns and common hermeneutical principles.