The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
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Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
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If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.
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First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
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Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.
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This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
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There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
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Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
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So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
