Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 563

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Chap.

§ 84.

II]

THE FORMS OF INSPIRATION

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gives that absolute character of the teaching " as one having authority " to what He spake as the fruit of the inspiration, in virtue of the Divine union, the impression of which to this day, in the reading of His Word, takes hold of one so over-

harmony with this, the Scriptui'e He had in Him its centrum. indicates the Covenant by Old in the who spake prophet; the is Entirely in

whelmino'ly.

that

inspiration

His ascension bears witness by His apostles and who is still our prophet through the Word. (See Deut. 1 Pet. i. 11, '* The spirit of Christ which was in xviii. 18 them testified beforehand" John xvi. 13). prophets

;

after

;

;

—

He who derives his (5) The Inspiration of the Ajjostles. conception of inspiration exclusively from the inspiration of the prophets, is bound to conclude that there is no question In the case of the of inspiration in the case of the apostles. apostles, indeed, inspiration bears an entirely different charac-

from that of the lyric, chokmatic, or prophetical organs of This difference sprang from a threefold the Old Covenant. First from the fact that the Holy Spirit had now been cause. poured out and had taken up His abode in the Church of God. This difference is most succinctly stated by the antithesis of inshining (irradiatio) and indwelling (inhabitatio). Secondly, from the fact that with the apostles inspiration adapted itself

ter

to

their official

they came

function.

And

thirdly,

from the fact that

after the Incarnation, which the seers of the

Old

on Patmos, As soon therefore Covenant anticipated. inspiration deals no longer with the reality which appeared in the Christ, but refers to things to come, inspiration resumes as,

with them

The

its

prophetical character, viz. in

its

apocalyptical

came to Peter was equally visionlike. And so far as Paul had not belonged to the circle of Jesus' disciples, an entirely separate calling, tradition and ecstasy were given him, which were needful to him and form.

revelation that

adapted to his isolated position. With these exceptions,, in the oral and inspiration there is nothing that suggests in the Acts and written preaching of the apostles, as given

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