Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 384

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§ 69.

by one for

all,

one

is

THE RELATION BETWEEN

[Div. Ill

on the contrary, there is one central revelation given and it is from this central revelation that every elect to draw for himself his knowledge of God. Public

;

charity

may

provide each poor

man

a

sum

of

money with

which to buy provisions for himself, or may spread in a hall a common table from which all poor people may be fed. And thus it might be conceived that God should give to every sinner

whom He

chose a special light in the soul, an

individual inspiration in his consciousness, and that every

one should have enough of this for himself. This is what But such has not been the the mystics of every sort affirm. will of God. God the Lord has spread one table for His entire Church, has given one organically connected revelation for all, and it is from this one revelation designed for

and which neither repeats nor continues itself, that the all places and times, and in those churches every child of God, has to draw his knowledge of the all,

churches of

Eternal Being.

And

the witness of this one central reve-

which neither repeats nor continues itself, lies for us Not, of course, as though that Bible, in the Holy Scripture. by itself, were sufficient to give, to every one who reads it, the true knowledge of God. We positively reject such a mechanical explanation and by their teaching of the witness of the Holy Spirit as absolutely indispensable for all conviction concerning the Scripture, by their requirement of illumination for the right understanding of the Scripture, and by their high esteem of the ministry of the Word for the application of the Scripture, our fathers have sufficiently shown

lation

;

that such a mechanical explanation cannot be ascribed to

That they nevertheless took the Holy Scripture, and else, as principium of the knowledge of God, yea, as principium, had its ground in the circumstance that the sole in the witness of the Holy Spirit, in the enlightening and in the application by the ministry of the Word, there is a recognition of what happens to or in the subject, in order that what has been revealed may be appropriated by him but by these the knowledge of God itself is not increased That knowledge of God as such does not nor changed.

them.

nothing

;

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