Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 465

;

Chap.

II]

who have

§ 78.

THE TESTIMONY OF THE APOSTLES

studied the connection.

441

Just before this pericope,

same address of our Lord, it is said that he who had broken one of these least commandments stood guilty and that He was come, not to destroy the Scripture of the Old Covenant, but to fulfil these by "His doctrines, life and passion." The warning, not to think that Jesus draws the sword against the Old Testament, is expressly added here. In closing let it be noted, that for three years Jesus had been most narrowly watched by the Sanhedrin, and every word He spoke had been carefully sifted. At that time there their Scripture and their were two holy things in Israel Of these two Jesus gave up the temple, of which temple. He said that not one stone would be left upon the other; Avhile, on the contrary, of the Scripture He declared, that no in this

:

jot or tittle of it shall pass

till all

shall be fulfiled.

ing His speech against the temple, complaint was

Concern-

made against

If He had\ Him, though the form of the charge was unjust. uttered a single word against the Scripture of the Old Testa- \ ment, He would certainly have been similarly accused. With reference to this, however, you observe no charge, not even a weak reproach, and from this it may be inferred, that in this matter of the Scripture His enemies had no fault to find with Him. § 78.

The

The Testimony of the Apostles

self-testimony of the Scripture lies so

much

concen-

with His judgment His discihas the testimony of the apostles any real value. If with reference to the Old Testaples were His followers. ment Jesus had paid homage to a method of viewing it which diverged from the then current one, the disciples would not have followed the common conception, but the diverging If, from their ministry, it appears that conception of Jesus. they themselves adhered to the current conception, it may be inferred from this that they were at no time warned against it by Jesus, that He had rather confirmed it, and Himself had not departed from it. The testimony of the apostles, therefore, has this value, that it throws further light upon trically in Jesus, that only in connection

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