To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.