Still in the special voice, his father was saying, “I know, I know. It hurts, little guy. But I have to use a vein, and the veins in your arms are still too teeny-weeny.” He pushed the plunger very slowly, injecting the liquid into the scalp vein until the syringe was empty.
It was clear to Gregor that the father had misinterpreted Grete’s all too brief statement and assumed Gregor was guilty of some kind of violence. The narrator provides insight into the moment after Gregor’s mother faints from seeing Gregor.
Father may be an obedient model citizen, but he is still human. “Lily,” her mother said fondly, “you’re very close to being an Eight, and when you’re an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children.
The father remarks on the state of his life as the mother and Grete lead him from his chair to his bed. Before Gregor’s transformation, the father stayed at home, but now he must work again and seems exhausted by the time he gets home.
The contrast “begotten, not made” is a broadside against Arianism. As Athanasius put it, “The Son is other than things originate [i.e., created], alone the proper offspring of the Father’s essence.” 3 The church fathers saw a massive distinction between a creature made by God and an offspring eternally begotten of God.
This was reinforced by the language, “From the womb, before the morning star,” which was taken as a reference to the time prior to creation (Job 38:7) when the Son was “in the Father’s bosom” (John 1:18).
THE BIBLICAL BASIS OF ETERNAL GENERATION. The doctrine of the eternal generation or begetting of the Son was not concocted by means of philosophical speculation. Nor was it primarily a theological deduction from the correlative names “Father” and “Son.”. Rather, the Son’s personal property of being eternally begotten of ...
This doctrine is important because it is crucial to defending the full deity of the Son , and it is the linchpin of the classical doctrine of the Trinity.
The point of the analogy is very narrow: to affirm that just as human fathers beget sons in a way that puts them in possession of a fully human nature, so when God begets the Son, the Son is in possession of a fully divine nature.
Arianism was the view that the Son is a subdeity who did not always exist but was created by God as the first and most glorious being in the universe, “the firstborn of all creation.”. Arians affirmed the preexistence of Christ — He existed as the Logos before His virgin birth.
John opens his Gospel by describing who Jesus Christ was before He became incarnate: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
While Gregor remains completely conscious of his surroundings and continues thinking just as he used to, his father now only views him as an insect that must be hidden away. It was clear to Gregor that the father had misinterpreted Grete’s all too brief statement and assumed Gregor was guilty of some kind of violence.
The narrator describes the scene after Gregor attempts to follow the head clerk to prevent him from leaving.
Gregor makes surprisingly unemotional observations while his father attacks him . In the midst of his father’s violence toward him, he marvels at the size of his father’s feet, an observation possibly motivated by a crawling bug’s survival instinct.
Herr Samsa, who realized that she was eager to begin describing the details, cut her short with a definitive gesture of his hand. Here, the narrator describes the father’s reaction when the charwoman tries to explain more about Gregor’s death.
Without asking for clarification, the father comes after Gregor, assuming that Gregor’s disgusting physical body reflects a disgusting character as well. He no longer seems to see Gregor as his son.
Before Gregor’s transformation, the father stayed at home, but now he must work again and seems exhausted by the time he gets home. Not only does the father not have his son Gregor to provide for him and his family anymore, but he also must deal with Gregor’s continued burdensome existence.
Father’s response to Jonas’s seemingly simple question unknowingly crushes Jonas, and reveals to the reader how truly hollow their society has made him. Father can barely understand what emotions are, or why he would need them. There is a level of feeling that simply does not exist within him.
The truth is that shame and superiority exist here as surely as any another society, and Father’s judgment fits right in with a system that keeps people snugly in their places. It didn’t seem a terribly important rule, but the fact that his father had broken a rule at all awed him.
Here, Jonas’s recollection of his father’s complaints illuminates the judgment inherent in their town’s supposedly “equal” structure. If asked, Father would likely say that everyone’s work was equally important. The truth is that shame and superiority exist here as surely as any another society, and Father’s judgment fits right in ...
Jonas’s mother’s words reveal how deeply their jobs define them. Mother, the judge, explains regulations with careful detail while Father, the caretaker, ignores her and gives their child exactly what she wants.