Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 425

AND THE HOLY SCRIPTURE

Chai'. II]

All true understanding of the significance of

as cosmos.

Holy Scripture

the

401

is

lost,

therefore,

incision in the course of revelation

when lost

is

this important from view. He

Avho does not understand, that even as the Christ, the

Scripture also

is

given

the ivorld,

to

cannot tolerate

Holy it.

It

is the one Logos which in Christ by incarnation, and in the Scripture by inscripturation goes out to humanity at large,

as

is

it

glory.

being saved by God and shall hereafter shine in If thus the question is put what goes out to our

human

race as such from the special principium as matter of The Scripture and Divine knowledge, the answer reads nothing but the Scripture and in this sense the Scripture is identical in its working with the principium. :

;

The second

distinction,

referred to above, between the

God which is imparted to which that material becomes our own, is

material of the knowledge of

us and the

way

in

After the unveiling of the mystery, indicated by the former distinction, it lies in the nature of the case that the individual obtains no part in this salvation

no

less

important.

except as

member

of the organic whole.

Samuel received separate

Noah, Moses and

revelations, simply because

human-

But when such did not yet possess its revelation. once humanity as a whole had received its revelation, and this was completed, the need for all separate revelation fell away ity as

;

and

all

mysticism, which even after this

still

pretends to

receive separate personal revelation, frustrates thereby the

organic ministration of the Lord.

He who

has lived, lives,

or shall live, after our race in its unity has received its

Christ and its Scripture, has no other way at his disposal, by which to come to the knowledge of God, except in union with this central revelation; and in so far as the life-stream of the Christ propels itself in the Church, and the Scripture is borne by her as "the pillar and ground of the truth," the Church of Christ (provided it be not taken as institute) is There is no salvation outside the only means of salvation. firmly the organic relation both of our of her. But however race and of revelation must be maintained, it is not asserted that the Holy Scripture by itself is enough for the individual.

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