Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 569

Chap.

II]

little is

§

known

GRAPHICAL INSPIRATION

8-5.

to us of the preaching of

who for many What are thirteen

even of Peter and Paul, apostolic mission.

Paul, whose

life

was so

so widely ramified?

active,

545

most of the apostles,

years discharged their epistles for a

man

like

and whose connections were

How much

of controversy has been

raised about his epistle to the Laodiceans, as though, indeed,

that were the only one that

ure?

On

was not included

in the Script-

the other hand, what a large part of Scripture

is

uncovered by inspiration, as thus far viewed. Even though you count Samuel and Kings among the prophets, the books of Chronicles, Ezra, Esther and Nehemiah, etc., And, in the third place, even if there are still left over. this difference of compass, still what has been thus were not far treated of could never result in anything more than that such an inspiration had taken place in a whole series of ambassadors of God, while the compilation of what they sang or spake under this inspiration had received no supervision. With this in mind, we purposely distinguish graphic inspiration from the other forms of inspiration; so that by ^ (jraphic inspiration we understand that guidance given by the Spirit of God to the minds of the writers, compilers and editors of the Holy Scriptures, by which these sacred waitings have assumed such a form as was, in the counsel of salvation, predestined by God among the means of To prevent any misunderstanding, grace for His Church. we observe at once that in an epistle like that to the Galatians, this graphical inspiration coincides almost entirely with the apostolic inspiration, for in an epistle that was sent, the Neverapostolic inspiration itself bore a graphic character. theless, the one conception is here not entirely covered by the other so far, indeed, as there was a choice between several epistles, or between several copies of the same epistle, another Moreover, we grant that it would be factor came into play. more logical, to class that which is not indicated as graphic inspiration as a subdivision under the activity of God with respect to the canon (actio Dei circa Canonem), which in left

;

turn belongs under the works of

God

pertaining to provi-

dence (opera Dei, quoad providentiam), and more particu-

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