Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 462

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§ 77.

INSPIRATION ACCORDING TO THE

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and thus imposed upon tliem His insight, that this prophecy referred to Him, as Divine authority. This, however, may not be taken as though in the Old Testament Jesus had merely seen a mosaic from which He took a separate Scripture according to the occasion. On the contrary, the Old Testament is one whole to Him, which as

Him. " Ye search the Scriptures," said He (John 5 39) to the Scribes, "because ye think that in them ye have eternal life and they are they which hear witness of we." As a whole the Scripture points thus concentrically to Hence His citation of two utterances of the Old Him. Testament in one dictum, as for instance in Matt. ix. 13, from Hosea vi. 6 and from Micah vi. 8; which is only explicable from the point of view that back of the secondary authors (auctores secundarii) of each book you recognize one first author (auctor primarius), in whose plan and

a whole refers to :

;

utterance of thought Scriptures.

lies

the organic unity of the several

The secondary author

is

sometimes named, but

only with the quotations of those utterances which did not come forth from them, but which were directed to them, as " And unto for instance in Matt. xiii. 14, where we read :

them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah," and then folloAvs Isaiah vi. 9, " concerning those who seeing do not perceive," which was spoken by God to Isaiah in the vision of his call. We find the same in Matt. xv. 7, 8, where Jesus says ''Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying: This " peoj)le honoreth me with their lips, etc.," in which the " ]Me itself indicates that Isaiah did not speak these words, but God. That this conception embraced not merely the prophetical, but likewise the historical, books appears from the constant reference to what occurs in the Old Testament concerning Noah, Abel, Abraham, Sodom, Lot, the queen of Sheba, Solomon, Jonah, etc., all of which are historic references which show that the reality of these events was a certainty :

even as they were a certainty to those to whom He If it be true, therefore, that in no given instance spake. Jesus utters an express declaration concerning inspiration,

to Jesus,

it

appears sufficiently clearly, that

He

considered the Script-

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