Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 490

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§80.

THE INSPIRATION OF

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over into tradition, and this tradition must clothe the only conceivable form of that of the Scriptura.

away body

human

itself in

trustworthiness, viz.

This necessity would have fallen

the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the mystical

if

had worked actual holiness and infallibility Then, indeed, oral tradition would have been guarSince, anteed against involuntary and wilful falsification. and they not so, who are regenerated must however, this is struggle till their death with the after-throes of sin, and of Christ

at once.

Church of Christ many hypocrites are continunumbered with the children of palingenesis, the oral The tradition was in imminent danger of being falsified. since in the

ally

necessitas scripturae, therefore, to perpetuate the manifesta-

which took place eighteen centuries ago was undeniThus, the content of the Old Testament called for the complementing manifestation in Christ, and the Scripture of the Old Testament for its written complement in the NeuK This holds the more because the manifestation, however much it may be plerosis with respect to the prophetical distion

able.

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pensation of the Old Testament, bears in

itself, in its

turn,

an incomplete and therefore a prophetical character. Potentially the Divine reality is seen in the manifestation of Christ, but this will find its actual consummation only in the parousia, when the palingenesis shall have worked its effect in the universal cosmical sense. Hence, the second manifestation in Christ calls for a third manifestation in the parousia. Of this, Paul says, 1 Cor. xv. 24 " Then cometh the :

end,

when he

Father."

shall deliver

In the

new

up the kingdom

to

God, even the

dispensation, therefore, there

is

not

only the manifestation of what was prophesied in Israel, but the prophecy, as well, of a manifestation which only comes after this. An ethical " It is finished " has been heard from Golgotha, but the

final

"It

is

come

to pass" (Rev. xxi. 6)

There is also what lies between the first coming of Christ and His return, and an apocalypse of what shall be the end and as the tradition of what had taken place called will onl}^ be proclaimed after the Parousia.

a program, therefore, of

;

for the support of writing,

from the nature

of the case this

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