Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 457

Chap.

II]

SELF-TESTIMONY OF THE SCRIPTURE

433

In like manner we read in Matt. xxvi. 54 God." then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus

:

"How

must Old Testament appear as one whole, which is called al ypacfiai, and it is a Scripture, such as offers the program of what was to come, and gives that program with such authority, that the fulfilment of it could not fail. This program was not contained in this word or that, but in the whole Scripture, which here Compare with this the similar appears as organically one. " But this is done that the Scriptutterance in Mark xiv. 49 That at another time Jesus indiures might be fulfilled." cated the same unity by the law, appears from John x. 34, and appears likcAvise from John xv. 25, where the Lord quotes from Psalms xxxv. and Ixix., and declares concerning this, And if proof is called that that is written "in their law." for, that Jesus viewed this unit not only as organicallj^ one, but represented to Himself the groups also in this unit as organically related, then look in John vi. 45, where He quotes from Isaiah liv. and from Jeremiah xxxi., and affirms, not that this occurs as such in Isaiah and Jeremiah, but in the prophets. This subdivision also of the Scripture, which is called " the prophets," is thus indicated by the article as one organic whole, which as such offers us the program of the

be

?

Here

"'

it

also the Scriptures of the

:

future.

In the second place, it appears that Jesus recognized of the Scriptures of the Old Testament in the sense of a single whole of authoritative writing, that a word, or a fragment of it

was authoritative, and that

or yeypaTTTat

make

it

as

ypa(f>'^,

or

ryeypafi/Jievov,

possessed that high condition, that

The use

men

could

of these expressions does

their appeal to it. not point to a citation but to an authority in the sense in which Pilate exclaimed: "What I have written I have

written," which he did not say as author but as governor,

clothed with discretionary authority.

Neither the 'yer^pa'maL

nor the yeypafi/nevov can be thought without a subject from whom it goes forth, and this subject must have authority to If now determine something, simply because he tvrites. ye'jpaTrrai, as in this instance, is used in an entirely absolute

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