Miłość ojczyzny w pismach proroków Starego Testamentu. „Posłannictwo czy polityka?”

Abstract

Such Biblical Texts as e.g. 1K 22,1-38; 2K 6,8-25; 13,14-19; Is 7,1-17; 39,1-8 etc. show, that the prophets of Yahweh speak about political matters and therefore give impression of an interference in affairs, which are beyond prophetic sphere. But the prophets must speak about these matters, because those one were closely connected with moral principles. The necessity to preach rose from their prophetic mission, given expressly by God, to address these matters as a word of Yahweh to the people. They prophesied also, moved by the love of their nationals, because from God’s revelation they knew misery and misfortune, as a sorrowful result of the politics, which ignored the law of God and the position of Israel, as a people of Yahweh. The prophets of God as human beings, were sometimes weak-hearted men(e.g. Je 15,18-20; 20,7-9) and did not always understand their mission in the full sense of the word (e.g. Jon 4,2-4). But they were not pessimists (e.g. Je 31,33; Ezk 36, 25-27). Absolutely heart and soul devoted to God, They were ready to make any sacrifice, which demanded from them their vocation and mission (e.g. Am 3,8).