Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 460

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§ 77.

INSPIRATION ACCORDING TO THE

[Div. Ill

argument hangs on the single word Lord. '* Tlie Lord said unto my Lord;'' yea, even more precisely, on the single iod. The emphasis falls on the "my Lord." In John X. 35 the entire argument falls to the ground, except the one word " gods " have absolute authority. In the same way it can be shown, in a number of Jesus' arguments from the Scripture, that in the main they do not rest upon the general contents, but often upon a single word or a single letter. of Jesus'

The theory therefore of a general tendency in the spiritual domain, which in the Old Testament should merely have an advisory authority, finds no support in Jesus.

The same result is reached when notice is taken of Jesus' judgment concerning the contents of Old Testament Scripture. Without the spur of any necessity, entirely voluntarily, in Luke xvi. 29 Jesus puts the words upon Abraham's lips " They have Moses and the prophets let to the rich man them hear them." This is said in answer to the prayer that some one might be sent to earth in the name of God to proclaim the will of God. This is denied by the remark, :

;

that in the earth they already are in possession of a Divine authority, even the Old Testament. The " hear them

here has the same significance as the " hear him " at the

baptism of Jesus

;

means, to subject oneself to Divine

it

Jesus appears to attribute entirely the same

authority.

character to the content of the Old Testament as often as

He

refers

filled,"

to the

fact

Scripture " must be ful-

that the

and " cannot be broken."

All that

men have thought

out or invented can be corrected by the result, can be seen from the outcome to have been mistakenly surmised, and is

The only thing not God Himself has given, The need, the must, which

therefore susceptible to being broken. susceptible to this

and given

is

the program

in a definite form.

Jesus again and again applies to His passion, and applies to particulars, is only in place with the supposition of such a for His passion given by God. Not to see this is to be umvise, and shows that one is "slow of heart to believe," Luke xxiv. 25. It needs scarcely a reminder that this need

program

of fulfilment

is

by no means exhausted

in a general sense, as

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