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THE FUHMS OF INSPIIIATION

§ ^i.

[Div. Ill

They speak

as though they speak of though they write of themselves. themselves, they write as In all probability the same phenomenon showed itself in the hundred or more of their addresses and epistles, of The "cloke and the Avhich no reports have come to us. parchments left at Troas," as an incident, stands by no Almost the entire contents of apostolic means by itself. If from outliterature bears the same ordinary character. side sources nothing were known of the inspiration of tlie prophets, the simple phrase " Thus saith the Lord " already in

tlieir

P^^istles.

shows that there

With

is

at

least

pretence

the

inspiration.

of

on the other hand, the suggesIn 1 Cor. vii. inspiration scarcely presents itself. of tion between " I of an antithesis 10. coll. 12, we even read " Yea, not I, but the Lord," but this give charge,'' and refers to the difference between what Paul knew from the special revelation given to himself (1 Cor. xi. 23, " For I apostolic

literature,

received of the Lord"), and by apostolic inspiration, as he

expressly adds at the close of this same chapter

:

"

And

I

have the Spirit of God" (1 Cor. vii. That inspiration, however, took place with the apos40). John xvi. tles, appears meanwhile from Matt. x. 19, 20 12-14, 14-26, etc.; from Acts xv. 28, "For it seemed good from 1 Cor. ii. 10-12, to the Holy Ghost, and to us " " But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit," and

think that

I

also

;

;

them the deep things of God. Paul, as well as the other apostles, had not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, and

this

Holy

Spirit alone could reveal to

the effect of this

given by God.

is that he knew the things that were freely The same appears from 2 Cor. iii. 3, where

of the heart an epistle of Christ is said to be written, not with ink, but " with the spirit of the living God,"

on the tables

and instrumentally this was effected by the apostles: "minIn Eph. iii. 5 it is stated that the mystery, istered by us." from former generations, "hath now hidden been wliich had apostles in the Spirit." In Rev. i. unto his holy been revealed " Paul does not I was in the Spirit." 10 John declares even, of him is not a heard had hesitate to say that what they

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