Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 486

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§ 80.

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THE INSPIRATION OP

[Div. Ill

the psychological point of view the process of the rise

this

authority, both with

Testament,

is

The

one.

the

New

and with the Old

description of this process

task of the science of Canonics, and therefore

lies

is

the

outside of

our scope. But the inner necessity needs to be indicated with which the Old called for the New Testament, and how this necessity has been universally realized. We begin with the latter. Consider then how difficult it must have been at first for the pious mind, to add to the Holy Scripture, consisting as it then did of the Old Testament, a new part, with the claim of equal authority. An absolute boundary line separated the Old Testament from every other writing. Even the conflict with the Apocrypha

And now

had ceased.

of other writings,

the idea arises, of placing

which lack every mark

all sorts

of antiquity,

are of very recent date, on a line with this

Holy

and

Script-

even with respect to authority, and yet this idea meets with no opposition, but enters as of itself and while at the same time all sorts of other writings are circulated, one sees in the main very soon a boundary line drawn between what

ure,

;

with that authority, and what in such a process And more than one development? not much of spiritual century has passed after Jesus' ascension, before a complement for the Old Testament has formed itself, begins to run by its side, finds recognition, and comes into sacred use. And this went on so unobservedly and of itself, that although all sorts of controversies arose concerning the question, whether this or that book should be adopted, yet of a fundamental controversy against the idea itself, of adding

commends

itself

does not.

What

New

as clothed

are one

hundred years

Testament

to the Old, there is absolutely no trace Reaction against this idea as such proceeded, and very reasonably, from the side of the Jews alone, but was not even suggested in the circle of the Christians. They were as controversial then as we are now, and there

a

discoverable.

no difference, however small, dogmatic, ethic, or ecclesiastic, but has been fought for and against from the beginning. But no trace of any significance appears anywhere of opposiis

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