I/30, pp. 127–128, as quoted in Jon Stewart's The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), p. 69, and An Introduction to Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2022), p. 42
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[Jesus' Jewish contemporaries] are still thinking in terms of a temporal redemption and of an earthly kingdom that they had hoped from Jesus up until that time. Israel or the Jewish people was to be redeemed, but not the human race... Thus it was not a savior of the human race who would expiate the sins of the whole world through his Passion and death, but one who would redeem the people of Israel from temporal servitude.

— Hermann Samuel Reimarus

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[Jesus' Jewish contemporaries] are still thinking in terms of a temporal redemption and of an earthly kingdom that they had hoped from Jesus up until that time. Israel or the Jewish people was to be redeemed, but not the human race... Thus it was not a savior of the human race who would expiate the sins of the whole world through his Passion and death, but one who would redeem the people of Israel from temporal servitude." in the context of "I/30, pp. 127–128, as quoted in Jon Stewart's The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), p. 69, and An Introduction to Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2022), p. 42" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Hermann Samuel Reimarus

About Hermann Samuel Reimarus

Hermann Samuel Reimarus (22 December 1694, Hamburg – 1 March 1768, Hamburg), was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and our own internal reality, thus eliminating the need for religions based on revelation. He denied the supernatural origin of Christianity, and is credited by some with initiating historians' investigation of the historical Jesus.