Abstract
The Albertian exegesis of John 1:19-24 raises three questions: the identity of the witness, the articulation of both Testamentó and the manifestation of the Word. In each of these three cases, John the Baptist's testimony underlines, according to Albert the Great, the role of the materiality of the mediations. To the question of the identity, John the Baptist answers with a function: he is the ...
Abstract
The Albertian exegesis of John 1:19-24 raises three questions: the identity of the witness, the articulation of both Testamentó and the manifestation of the Word. In each of these three cases, John the Baptist's testimony underlines, according to Albert the Great, the role of the materiality of the mediations. To the question of the identity, John the Baptist answers with a function: he is the voice that announces the Word. According to the same pattern, he breaks the continuity with the figure of the prophet of the First Testament: in contrast with the inspired prophet, the enunciation is not the announcement of a future accomplishment, but the act by which the Word manifests himself through the voice as a material mediation. This distinction between the sound of the voice and the act of the Word, which Albert takes up from Augustin, allows the reader of John 1:19-24 to take the place of the witness to how John the Baptist's voice is the mediation of the Word that he testifies
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