The mystical meaning of confirmation
Ivo writes:
How do you translate "ich bin
bewaehret"?
Alain de Libera translates "j'ai
ete confirmee"
DUDEN, Das groesse Woerterbuch der
deutschen Sprache, Dudenverlag, 1999, in 10 Baende
mittelhochdeutsch bewaeren (a
attached to e)
althochdeutsch bewaren (horizontal
line above the a)
sich als wahr, als richtig
erweisen
[heutige Bedeutung]
- sich als geeignet, zuverlaessig
erweisen
- beweisen, zeigen
The old (AHD and MHD) meanings
appear to me to be better or does it mean "mein Sein ist/war bestaetigt"?
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Hi Ivo,
In matters as these I don't stay to a linguistic
approach. Of course language can give some help, but it is much more
important for one to understand the meaning in the context of what is said.
Does the text give any evidence of what exactly the meaning of this
condition of being bewaehret is? However, from what you say I undestand it
to mean rather certain in the sense of rooted, based, founded,
established. I understand it in the meaning of what Symeon the New
Theologian (the Meister Eckhart of the East, as some call him), confesses
about this condition: "they see only God - in a mind without concepts, in a
mind plunged on the Light, as the arrow on the wall, or as the star on the
sky...".
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Related:
•
The Meister
Eckhart Site
•
The Greek Word : Three
Millennia of Greek Literature
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