Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard

by Søren Kierkegaard

[3]Socrates.

[4]John I, 1.

[5]Matthew 20, 15.

[6]Luke 11, 14.

[7]Kierkegaard's note: by history we mean here profane history, world history, history as such, as against Sacred History.

[8]Cf. the claim of the Pharisees, Matth. 23, 30: "If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets."

[9]One is here irresistibly reminded of passages in Ibsen's "Brand," e. g., Brand's conversation with Einar, in Act I. Cf. also "The invitation and the inviter" and Introduction.

[10]Matthew 11, 6.

[11]Luke 18, 32.

[12]Matthew 20, 27f.