Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 467

Chap.

II]

§ 78.

THE TESTIMONY OF THE APOSTLES

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alone can decide the question of marriage the only question is to know the will of God, and, by his statement, Paul ;

for us

claims to possess that knowledge, on the ground that he, as well as the writers of the Old Testament and other apostles, had received the Holy Ghost. That this exegesis is correct, In verse 2, he had appears from 1 Thess. iv. 9 cf verse 2. " For ye know what charges we gave you," and after said ;

.

:

an instruction in the principles of these charges, he follows " Therefore he that it up with these words, in verse 8 man, but God, who giveth his Holy not rejecteth rejecteth, Thus he assumes that his ordinances are Spirit unto you." the clear expression of God's will that for this reason they and he explains this from the are divinely authoritative fact that a work of the Holy Spirit has taken place in them Of Moses, it is written in or on behalf of the church. Heb. viii. 5, that he was admonished of God when he was " See that thou make all about to make the tabernacle :

;

;

:

things according to the pattern that was shewed thee in the

mount."

To

him, therefore, had come an utterance from

the oracle^ for such

is

the meaning of

/ce^^^pT/^arto-rat,

accord-

ing to the conception which was then current in the apossomething that did not come up from himself, tolic circle but was given him from without it referred to a very concrete affair, to wit: that the plan for the tabernacle was not ;

;

to be designed

outside.

by

himself, but

In James

v. 10,

had been brought

we read

to

him from

that the prophets " spake in

name of the Lord," which implies that what was spoken them was not binding in virtue of the authority of their own person or insight, but was spoken by them in the name which either assumes a fanatical preof Christ Himself sumption, or, since the apostle does not mean this, can only be explained by the idea of inspiration. In Rev. xxii. 17-20, it is said that Christ bears witness to that which, by exclu-

the b}^

;

is written in the Apocalypse (to the prophecy of this book), so that adding to or taking away from the things written in this book involves the penalty of eternal loss. According to 1 Pet. i. 12, the preaching of the apostles is done " by the Holy Ghost sent forth from

sively Divine authority,

words

of the

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