Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 574

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GRAPHICAL INSPIRATION

§ 85.

[Div. Ill

Church had entered upon the

difficulty, that after the

sion of such writings, unauthorized editors

still

posses-

tried to intro-

duce modifications, which did not belong to them, and these This indeed is related to the of course must be excluded. general position occupied by the Church over against the Scripture, which tends at no time to allow the certainty of As soon faith to be supplanted by the certainty of intellect. thought that the holy ore of the Scripture can be in the balance with mathematical accuracy, the eye of faith becomes clouded, and the gold is less clearly seen. The answer to the question as to our right to accept such

as it

is

weighed

a graphic inspiration

is

given in §§77 and 78.

It

is

the self-

witness (avTopLaprvpLov) of the Scripture, Avhich it gives of Christ indeed itself in the central revelation of the Christ. oives us no theory of graphic inspiration, but the nature of the authority, which He and His apostles after Him attributed to the Scripture of His times, admits of no other solution. The " all Scripture is theopneustic " is not said of the inspira-

tion of the psalmists, wise

men, and prophets, but of the

This certainly declares that they remained writers in the strictest sense, even as compilers and examiners of their material, as compositors and in

products of the

artistic

tions

tvriters.

grouping of the contents, but that in

the Holy

of their

human

Spirit

worked

so effectively

all

these func-

upon the action

minds, that thereby their product obtained

Divine authority. Of course not in the sense that the content of what they rehearsed obtained thereby a Divine charWhen they relate what Shiraei said, it does not make acter.

demoniacal language Divine, but it certifies that Shimei spake these evil words always impressionistically, however, When in the four Gosthe same as in the New Testament. his

;

pels Jesus, on the

same occasion,

is

are different in form of expression,

made it is

to say

words that

impossible that

He

The Holy should have used these four forms at once. upon impression an make to intends merely however, Spirit, said. Jesus what to corresponds wholly which Church the TestaOld in the written is what with case the The same is ment. The composition of this had taken place under one

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