Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 452

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§ 77.

INSPIRATION ACCORDING TO THE

[Div. Ill

from the selfsame In God and in His counsel there is but one principium, and if we distinguish between a special principium or one of grace, wliich presently works in upon the natural principium, we onl}^ do this in view of the twofold providence, which must have been given, in the one decree of creation, just because the cosmos was ethically founded. That the working of these two principia form a twofold sphere for our consciousness, cannot be avoided, because the higher consciousness, which reduces both to unity, will only be our portion in the state This antithesis, however, is not present with God of glory. He indeed works all miracles from the for a moment. deeper lying powers, which were fundamental to the creation itself, without at a single point placing a second creation

and

for this purpose the action goes out

counsel of God, from which

by the

side of the

reneival, it is

or a

new

its

Wherever the Scripture speaks

first.

never meant that a

state of being

ordinance came forth.

should

new arise,

but simply that a

shoot springs from the root of creation

new

shoot a graft

way

is

of a

poiver should originate,

itself,

new

that of this

entered upon the old tree, and that in

is renewed and completed. Creaand re-creation, nature and grace, separate, tion so far as

this

the entire plant

the concrete appearance in the practical application cerned, but both in the counsel of tialities of

being they have one root.

is

con-

God and in the potenThe miracle, therefore,

form is not from nature, but from the root from which nature sprang. It is not mechanically added in its concrete

to nature, but

is

organically united to

son why, after the parousia, of

all

it.

This

is

the rea-

action of the principium

grace flows back into the natural principium, brings

this

to

its

consummation, and thus, as such,

itself

dis-

appears. § 77.

Inspiratioyi according to the Self- Testimony of the

Scripture

r

The naive Holy

catechetical

method

of proving the inspiration

Scripture from 2 Tim.

iii. 16 or 2 Pet. i. 21, cannot be laid to the charge of our Reformed theologians.

of the

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