Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wellhausen
“I
became a theologian because the scientific treatment of the Bible interested
me; only gradually did I come to understand that a professor of theology also
has the practical task of preparing the students for service in the Protestant
Church, and that I am not adequate to this practical task, but that instead
despite all caution on my own part I make my hearers unfit for their office.
Since then my theological professorship has been weighing heavily on my
conscience.” (He was appointed in 1872
to teach theological students but resigned in 1882 because of his atheistic
ideas).
Ek
het ’n teoloog geword omdat die wetenskaplike behandeling van die Bybel my geïnteresseer
het; eers geleidelik het ek tot die besef gekom dat 'n professor in die
teologie ook die praktiese taak het om die studente voor te berei vir diens in
die Protestantse Kerk, en dat ek nie toereikend is vir hierdie praktiese taak
nie, maar dat in plaas daarvan, ten spyte van alle versigtigheid van my eie
kant, maak ek my hoorders ongeskik vir hul amp. Sedertdien weeg my teologiese
professoraat swaar op my gewete. Dus bedank ek vandag. (1882 vanaf 1872 toe hy aangestel was om teologiese opleiding te gee).
Sy verkeerde boeke het hierna gekom.
나는 성경의 과학적 취급에 관심이 있었기 때문에 신학자가 되었습니다. 신학
교수도 개신교에서 봉사할 수 있도록 학생들을 준비시키는 실질적인 임무를 맡고 있다는 사실과 내가 이 실질적인 임무에 적합하지 않다는 사실을 서서히
이해하게 되었습니다. 내 청중을 그들의 직무에 부적합하게 만드십시오.
그 이후로 나의 신학 교수직은 나의 양심을 무겁게 짓누르고 있습니다. (1872년 그가
신학 훈련을 하도록 임명되었을 때부터 1882년). 그의
잘못된 책들이 이 뒤에 나왔다