Testament (bible)
The German word testament comes from the Latin testamentum . Its original meaning is "legally binding disposition", for example as a regulation for inheritance .
In Christian church Latin , testamentum is a term taken over from the Greek diatheke (διαθήκη) of the Greek Old Testament , the original Christian literature in the Greek language. Testamentum and diatheke are translations of the Hebrew term berit from the Torah .
A diet counter was generally a contract that was offered by one side and accepted or rejected, but not changed, by the other side. This meaning is meant in the designation of the two parts of the Christian Bible as the Old Testament and New Testament and in the sacrament words of the Lutheran Bible translation and liturgy : "This is the New Testament in my blood" and "This is my blood of the New Testament" .
At Mount Sinai, God offered a covenant ( berit ), which all the people of Israel accepted and testified.
“I am the Eternal , your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves. You shall not have any other gods in front of me. "
“You are not to make yourself an idol , not even a form similar to that which is above in heaven and below on earth or in the water under the earth. You should not bow down to them or worship them in worship. Because I, the Eternal, your God, am a jealous God (...) "
literature
- Augustin Edmund Engelbrecht: Brief narratives from the biblical history of the New Testament . Printed and published by Friedrich Winkler, Passau 1838.
Footnotes
- ↑ This also applies to a will, as an heir can refuse or accept his inheritance, but cannot change the content of the will.
- ↑ a b W. Gunther Plaut (ed.) Plaut, Walter (introductory) Homolka, Annette (transl. And edit.) Böckler: The Torah in Jewish interpretation / 2, Schemot, Exodus. , 2nd ed., 1st ed. D. Special edition Edition, Kaiser, Gütersloher Verl.-Haus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-05493-3 , p. 210 ff.