Divine Mercy: The Heart of the Gospel

42 Divine Mercy: The Heart Of The Gospel mine whether he means the past or the future). 18 “This concept is fully justified and supported by the countless acknowledgments of Bible translators as to the inadequacy of the cus­ tomary method. Martin Luther, whose translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into German in AD 1534 “spiritualized Germany and made the German language,” stated it plainly: “The words of the Hebrew tongue have a peculiar energy. It is impossible to convey so much so briefly in any other language. To render them intelligibly we must not attempt to give word for word translations, but only aim at the sense and the (original Author’s) idea.” (Table Talk). The Amplified Bible, “Publisher’s Foreword,” (Grand Rapids MI: Zondervan Bible Publishers, 1965). 19 Richard T. A. Murphy, O. P., Background to the Bible, (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Books, 1978), p. 150. 20 “There are both resemblances and differences if we compare the canti­ cles among themselves. By way of resemblances they are all highly suggestive of OT and intertestamental passages..., almost to the point that one can speak of them as mosaics pieced together with OT pieces. Yet the poetic patterns vary, with much closer poetic parallelism being found in the Magnificat than in the Benedictus.” Raymond E. Brown, S. S., The Birth o f the Messiah, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977), p. 348. 21 Richard T. A. Murphy, O. P., op. cit., p. 36. 22 Also synthetic parallelism occurs when the second part of the verse is used to combine, expand, develop or explain the thought of the first part. This form is difficult to explain and demonstrate in this paper, but will be the subject of any additional expansion of these ideas for restudy. 23 Sr. M. Faustina Kowalska, op. cit., entry no. 1182, p. 429. 24 Ibid., entry no. 1541, p. 547-548. 25 Joel B. Green, Scot McKnight, I.Howard Marshall, op. cit., p. 591-4. 26 Ibid., entry no. 1486, p. 525. 27 Then Luke reinforces our needto follow this pathby gathering para­ bles according to their complementary nuances. 28 William Barclay, The Apostles’Creedfo r Everyman, (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), p. 47. 29 C. G. Montefiore, The Synoptic Gospels, volume I, (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1968), p. 55.