Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 454

430 there

§ 77.

is

INSPIRATION ACCOKDING TO THE

no demonstration possible.

He who

[Div. Ill

stands outside

any other demonstration and reason in their from nature which is derived but that and how would you ever be able from these to actual form reach your conclusions concerning the reality of that which does not pretend to spring either from nature or from reaof the palingenesis cannot entertain

;

? Hence they only, who stand in conscious life-contact with the life-sphere of Christ can accept the force of demonstration, which lies in the testimony concerning the ScriptEven then, however, it ure by Jesus, as its highest organ. must be clearly held in view, that the reports of the Gospels concerning what Jesus said about the Old Testament, appear at this point of our argument as reports only, and not as testi-

son

mony already authenticated.

The value

to be attached to this

tradition concerning the utterances of Jesus, springs (while

taken as yet outside of faith in inspiration) not from the bare

communication of these utterances, but (1) from their multi(2) from the stamp of originality which these utterances bear (3) from their being interwoven with the events described and (4) from their agreement with the utterances of Jesus' disciples, whose epistles have come to us^ If such reports of Jesus' ideas about the Scripture were very rare, if they appeared for their own purposes only, or if it was their aim to formulate a certain theory of inspiration, then (always reckoning without faith in the Scriptures) they would not possess such a historic value to us but since there is no trace of such a design, and no insertion of a system is thought of, and only the use is shown which Jesus made of the Scripture amid the most varied circumstances and with all formity

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;

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from these reports it is historically cerdoes not reckon with inspiration, that Jesus judged the Scripture thus, and not otherwise. (jThis value, moreover, rises in importance by the fact, that that which Jesus appears to have thought about the Old Testament, agrees with tlie conception which, before his appearing, was prevalent concerning the Old Covenant.^ He introduces no new way of viewing it, but seals the conception that was current, and characterizes himself only by the sorts of applications,

tain, for

him

also

who

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