Quëstions sobre la doble obra lucana, I. La darrera pujada de Pau a Jerusalem: "Desviació del camí cap a Roma

• Autores: Josep Rius-Camps
• Localización: Revista catalana de teología, ISSN 0210-5551, Vol. 5, Nº. 1, 1980, págs. 1-94
• Idioma: catalán
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  • Paul's last visit to Jerusalem from Antioch was a controverted performance. Paul decided to go up to Jerusalem (Ac 19,21b) instead of proceeding direct to Rome as had been shown to him as the mind of God (Ac 19,21c). According to the alternative -Western text, this decision had been miscarried by the Holy Spirit in Ac 19,la. Luke construes this personal decision of Paul as parallel to a similar decision of Jesus in Lc 9,51, with the object of confronting the Jewish institution as personified by Jerusalem, but he inverts the terms by underlining the repeated warnings of the Holy Spirit to Paul, through the prophets of the communities he was visiting, directed towards dissuading Paul from going up to Jerusalem. Given that the commentators are not agreed about the interpretation of Ac 19,21b, nor for that matter of Ac 20,22, we have devoted the first section to a study of Luke's use of the term pneuma in its various meanings. Secondly we have analysed the three warnings formulated by the Holy Spirit about the convenience of this third visit to ,lerusalem. Then we have compared this of Paul with that of Jesus as related in the Gospel, pointing out the numerous points of contact and the deep divergencies, and deducing that both visits are constructed in antithetic parallelism. Finally we have paused to examine the consequences that Paul brought upon himself by this visit against the advice of the Holy Spirit. In synthesis we can affirm that Paul, acting on his own responsibility, found himself totally deserted by the Holy Spirit after his arrival in Jerusalem (not so by Jesus Christ), seeing himself unavoidably involved in a process which had to lead him fatally to a situation similar to that of Peter when he denied the Lord. Paul slowly became conscious of his desperate situation, becoming clear as the useless- ness of his attempt to win over the Jews revealed itself. In the last resort he would appeal to Ceasar, the personification of paganism, thus beginning a painful reversal that would bring him, not without grave difficulties, to the goal which the mind of God had fixed for him Rome. Once there, and following a further failure with the Jews of Rome (still not tainted by those of Palestine), he finally adrnitted that the Holy Spirit was correct about the obstinacy of the People of Israel, and he dedicated himself fully to the conversion of pagans, free of al1 impediment and with all his courage.