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CHAPTER 10 "He came to His possession, and His own did not receive Him"; "Pilate answered: I wrote what I wrote!" (John 1:11, John 19:22, written on January 8, 1844). [1] You can, as in the past, choose a text again; do so freely! [2] "He came to His possession, and His own did not receive Him." Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written!" [3] The texts are chosen well and correctly, and in their first position - as you say - to a hair. [4] Who came to His possession and His own did not receive Him? - Who the 'he' is, will hopefully be known; His possessions are the people, as they should be in the order created by Me, in love with their brethren and earnestly in love with God, their Creator. [5] "But His own did not receive Him." - His are those whom He had most of the time educated Himself, and sent to them at all times teachers and prophets, and led them and guided them wonderfully. [6] Why did they receive Him not? - Because He taught them the true ways of active love for eternal life; His people were friends of laziness, friends of well-being, and friends of dominion and glory, and these are not reconciled with the doctrine of humility and active love. [7] They said, "We have Moses and the prophets that we read; what do we need more? What do we need of you who disobey the Sabbath and pay little attention to Moses and the prophets by not keeping their statutes?! Is it not enough that we read and study Scripture and write long explanations? What other activity do You want from us that would be more worthy before God? [8] "Is not God a spirit whose nature one should not imagine under any picture?! How could one honor and praise Him more dignified than by continually reading His Word, which He has spoken through Moses and the prophets, from beginning to end, and explain it to ourselves and others, so that God's will may always be clearer and clearer understood?
[9] "What are you doing yourself? - We have Abraham as father and we have Moses and the prophets; Are you more than this?! What do you want to teach us that they would not have taught us? [10] "What is then human love unto God? - It is nothing but a vain thought! Man can do nothing; for in God alone dwells all energy. So you are a false teacher and a false prophet and you are an agitator of the people! [11] "We have the Scriptures from alpha to omega in our heads; is not that enough activity?! Or should we not study the Scriptures, and therefore pay little heed to the holy gift which the Lord God Zebaoth has given us through Moses and the prophets?! [12] "You are one who opposes the Divine will, yet pretends to be a teacher and prophet of God! But is it not written that every false prophet and sorcerer should be punished by a fire-death?! [13] "This wicked carpenter's son, scarcely able to read, and no more capable of writing his name, agrees to impose upon us ancient scribes a doctrine which directly opposes the spirit of Moses!" [14] See, these are of the many replies, according to which the One who came to His possession, was not received by His own. [15] Why? - Because His own, as it is also written, did not recognize Him. [16] But why did they not recognize Him? - Because they were just memorisers, but never doers of the Word of God! [17] In the same way, even now, I continually come to My possession; but mine do not want to receive Me and realize that it is Me! [18] Why do they not want that? Because, in the best case, the prefer reading and listening, as well as looking at My works, rather than a little activity according to My Words! Therefore, the spirit in My possession, which is the heart, does not become alive and does not recognize Me because My own does not want to have Me alive. [19] But I say: All these scribes will one day say, "Lord! Master! We prophesied, preached, and taught in Your Name out of Your word." [20] But I will say to them, "Depart from Me; I have never known you! Whoever has hired you to be teachers and sages, go to them, so that you may be rewarded! I came to you and knocked at all of your doors: but none of you said, 'Come in and invigorate our spirits so that we may be active and strong after your words!' You are content with the treasures of your head; but you have left My barn in your heart empty and have forfeited all My property in you. Therefore, you may now scream 'Lord! Lord!' as you will, yet I will not recognize you; for I know My own in Myself being in them. But you have no property of Me in you; that's why I do cannot recognize you!" [21] Pilate also confessed Me in this way; he bore the testimony of his confession of the ignominiously slain, while in the past he scourged the living and put Him on the cross. His confession was also written above the head of the crucified One, to bear witness to all those who bear the confession of God well in their heads, but not in their hearts. It is well written above their foreheads: "Jesus, Nazarenus, rex Judaorum," and they insist on this inscription, which says: "Lord! Master!"; but there is no inscription in the heart which would say, "O Lord, be merciful to me, poor sinner!" "Our Father" is in the head; but "Dear Father" is not in the heart! [22] Pilate insisted on his inscription and did not want to write another; for he himself said, "Whatsoever is written, that is written." Why, then, did he not honor the living before, as did the dead? [23] The reason is the same as why all the scholars prefer to remain with their reason in the head and resulting dead worship, than to enter into the least living act of true love! For they are twilight-believers who believe, or rather are of the opinion: "If there is something in the thing, we do not want to stand in the way of it by our opinions; But if there is nothing to it, then we have lost nothing either! For if one brings honor because one should, you win; if it is not, then you lose nothing! " [24] Pilate thought likewise, "If the crucified one is a higher being, I have shown him my honor; but if he is not, then I am justified; for in that case my inscription serves as an official scorn, from which anyone can see why he was crucified here! " [25] Do you think that the first reason will be valid before Me, if the second is already doubtful? - I say to you: It will be specifically for those who call out to Me, "Lord! Lord!", who would certainly not be heard, recognized and accepted by Me! Because the confession of the head will bring nobody closer to eternal life; for whoever wants to come to Me, must first absorb Me through living love, and his own love for Me will tell him that I am, and come to him and give him eternal life. [26] But no one can love that which is not; but he can create multifarious fantasies in his head about all non-beings, and thus also Myself among them. But there I am not, and no one will find Me there and will never reach the living conviction of Me and eternal life; because there I hang dead under the inscription of Pilate! [27] Only whoever becomes a doer of My Word will find the Risen One and the Eternally Living at My Grave, as he search with the flame of his heart! (Explanation of the Scriptures, chap. 10)
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