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Demiurge gazing at the Beautiful Eternal Model, reproducing “its form and character,”24 bringing temporal things into becoming.
God, and only God, creates the world by His Word, determining every event’s purpose from beginning to end. Time, as the cyclical, wearisome eternal return of hours and days, and nights, says Anderson, never removed from ancient people’s way of life, or from Nietzsche’s eternal return,25 “is masterly re-thought as salvation.”26 Thus, the return of a promised paradise, he adds, shifts to a prophetic one (Isa. 11:6-8; Hos. 2:18-H 2:20): it will be God’s revealed Word to whom he chooses, that will exercise sovereignty over nations. “The last days of a cycle shall no longer be an era’s new beginnings,” says Anderson, “but its last days.”27
24 Plato. Tim., 28b. Plato Complete Works. Ed. by John M. Cooper, D.S. Hutchinson. Indiana, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1997.
25 Nietzsche supposes that in a world where atoms are indestructible and finite, their infinite possible combinations in the eternity of time shall result in an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of identical moments, or an infinite recurrence (Wiederkehr) of identical cases. Nietzsche. Thus Spake Zarathustra. 57. The Convalescent. Trans. Thomas Common. Cumberland: Wordsworth Classics, 1997. 214.
26 Anderson, B.W. The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. An Illustrated Encyclopaedia. “Creation.” Ed. Arthur Buttrick and Emory Stevens Bucke. Volume I. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962. 725.
27 Time for Babylonians and early Hebrews is cyclical, marked by the constant rhythm or cycle of nature. It speculates at a theory of periods, not at telos. From Dr. Cousland’s class notes on the Theory of Myth. Linear, teleological time is blurried in the OT. Time is grasped naturally, cyclically, and statically. This wearies the spirit:
“What has been is what will be,
And what has been done is what will be done;
And there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9
Reed, W.L. The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. An Illustrated Encyclopaedia. “Time.” Ed. Arthur Buttrick and Emory Stevens Bucke. Volume 4. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962. 647a.
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