讀到Miss Clarayk Yip 的問題:'你的師傅真是耶穌嗎?' 讓我想起了巴特的一段話:
The Path of Pointing Away (The Prodigious Finger)
"Witnessing means pointing in a specific direction beyond the self and on to another. Witnessing is thus service to this other in which the witness vouches for the truth of the other, the service which consists in referring to this other…
Standing in this service, the biblical witnesses point beyond themselves...
One might recall John the Baptist in Grunewald's Crucifixion, especially his prodigious index finger. Could anyone point away from himself more impressively and completely ('he must increase, but I must decrease')...
This is what the Fourth Evangelist wanted to say about this John, and therefore about another John, and therefore quite unmistakably about every 'John.'" Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics I.1.4.3, 109-110 [112].
**We are to be who and what John was**
"Shall we dare turn our eyes in the direction of the pointing hand of Grünewald's John? We know whither it points. It points to Christ. But to Christ the crucified, we must immediately add. That is your direction, says the hand.” (Karl Barth, Word of God and Word of Man, p.76)