Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 494

;

470

§ 80.

clare unto

THE INSPIRATION OF

you the things that

[Div. Ill

And

are to come."

in both

which is obtained by cases it From transmitted by declaring. hearing^ and after that is made here to which it likewise follows that no reference is what Jesus spake after His resurrection, but exclusively to that which only later on should enter into their consciousOn the other hand, John xiv. 25, 26, ness by inspiration. Here is views what we call the gospel (to evayjeXiov') mention, not of what was still to be revealed, but of what had been revealed unto them, and by a failing memory Against this the Holy Spirit shall might escape them. watch, since " He shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I [Christ] said unto you," a process of inspiration, as will be seen later, of an entirely applies to a definite content,

.

different character, referring to the past, even as the inspi-

ration of

John

xvi. 12, to the things that are to come.

how

And

which the apostolate was to bequeath to the Church of all ages, would find an entrance and belief, John xv. 26, 27 gives answer for their witness would be accompanied and supported by

if

the question

is

raised

this double tradition,

the witness of the Holy Spirit in the heart of believers.

With the holy apostle Paul, however, an exception took With him there could be no remembrance by the Holy

place.

Ghost, because he had not followed Jesus.

?

declares that the exalted Mediator

had

Therefore, Paul

also revealed the Gos-

the only meaning that can be attached to his statement in 1 Cor. xi. 23, " For I received pel to him.

of the

This, indeed,

Lord that which

is

also I delivered

unto you," which

testimony he repeats in 1 Cor. xv. 3 almost literally, where he treats of the resurrection of the Lord. This is likewise referred to rest say case,

I,

may

by what he says in 1 Cor. vii. 12, " But to the not the Lord," which, from the nature of the not be taken as though his advice following

should possess no Divine authority, but as indicating that in His revelation of His earthly ajjpearance the Christ had

given him no direction concerning this, so that with reference to this the apostle speaks, not from the remembrance,

but from the revelation of the Holy Ghost

;

which repre-

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