Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 456

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§ 77.

INSPIRATION ACCORDING TO THJ:

[Div. Ill

tute a collection of products of Hebrew literature, but valued them as a holy unity of a peculiar sort.

He

the place to John x. 34, 35 This utterance is of threefold the whole Old Testament, from which

For this we refer in the

first

:

Scripture cannot he broken.

importance.

First,

is entitled by the singular indicated as a whole of a peculiar is article the by ypa(f)i], character is attributed an absolute whole this and to sort, it is out of the Secondly, broken." be "cannot by the meant not Scripture, been have can rj <ypa<^ri question that by " in what " God word of the because but spiritual revelation,

Psalm

Ixxxii. 6 is here quoted, 77

immediately precedes

is

clearly distinguished

from the

ypa(f)i].

should indicate the

And

thirdly, it is impossible that ypacfy-q quotation in hand, and not the Old Testament, since a con-

clusion a ^gwgmZi ad particulare follows, and just in this form

The

Scripture cannot be broken

;

this saying

:

from Psalm

hence Psalm Ixxxii. 6 also Which, moreover, is confirmed by the cannot be broken. expression " in your Law." He who quotes from the Psalms, and then declares that it is found in the Law, shows that he uses the name Laio for. the entire Old Testament, and thus

Ixxxii. 6 occurs in the Scripture

;

views this Testament as one organic whole. This unity appears likewise from Matt. xxi. 42, where Jesus asks: "Did ye never read in the Scriptures?" and then

No citation, therefore, from quotes Psalm cxviii. 22, 28. two different books, but a citation from one book, that of This the Psalms, even two verses from the same Psalm. shows that "the Scriptures" here does not refer to the Psalms, but to the whole Old Testament, in which the Psalms

and likewise that Jesus comprehends this Old Testaof 'ypa^ai as a unity, and by the article at isolates it from all other 'ypa^ai. The same we find in Matt. xxii. 29, in the words: "Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God." Here, also, at rypacfiui appears absolutely as the designation of the entire Holy Scripture Keeping no count with those Scriptures then in existence. is indicated as the cavise of their erring, and the Scripture, " the power of i.e. tlie Old Testament, is here coordinated with

occur,

ment under the name

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