Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 422

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§ 73.

THIS PRIXCIPIUM

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by a book descended from heaven or by a Bible upon an intellectualistic abstracaltogether incorrectly the relation which interprets tion, between being and thought, between fact and word. If it is entirely true, that God created by speaking, so that the creatural being originated by the word, it must not be forgotten that this word went out from Him who carries the In the creation therefore there is no TO esse in Himself. for us

dictated from heaven, rests

question of an abstract word, but of a

word

that carries in

and that the Scripture-word does not meet this requirement, appears from the fact, that without concomitants it is inert, even as the most glittering diamond without inshining light and admiring eyes differs Protest therein no particular from a dull piece of carbon. fore has ever been entered from the side of the Reformed against Luther's effort to place Word and Sacrament on a line, as though an active power lay concealed in the ScriptEven though Luther's representation of an ure as such.

itself

the full reality of

life

;

" eingepredigter " Christ allows defence to a certain extent,

the Bible, as book,

may never be accredited with a kind of By itself the Bible is nothing but a

sacramental power.

and vehicle, or, if you please, the instrument prepared by God, by which to attain His spiritual purj^ose, but always through the ever-present working of the Holy Spirit. If thus we take the sphere of action which belongs to carrier

I

principium in its entire compass, we find that it embraces everything that has taken place from the side of God, either immediately or mediately, and that has not proceeded from the natural principium, i.e. the whole plan of redemption everything that has tended to realize this plan and in this all the special leadings, signs, and wonders connection the entire inspiration and the formation of the

this special

;

;

;

Scripture

;

and

also

revelation of the

all

Church

palingenesis, all of Christ

;

illumination, all

while from this same

principium there shall yet come forth the palingenesis of heaven and earth, until the kingdom of glory is begun. The Bible, therefore, instead of being identical with this principium so far as

its

activity

is

concerned,

is

itself

a

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