Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 463

Chap.

SELF-TESTIMONY OF THE SCRIPTURE

II]

ures of the

Old Covenant

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to be the result of a Divine act/

and real subject of which was/ ''God" or "the Spirit." But there is more it can be shown that Jesus Himself of revelation, the original

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has given utterance to the idea of inspiration^ and, on the other hand, that He, by no single word, has opposed the ideas which at that time existed concerning inspiration.

idea of inspiration

is,

that

God by His

The

Spirit enters into

the spirit of man, and introduces into his

spirit,

i.e.

which this man could This very not derive from himself nor from other men. idea we find even put antithetically, in Matt. xvi. 17, where Jesus says to Peter that his confession of Him as the Christ, the Son of the living God, is no product of what he himself has thought or other people had whispered flesh and blood taken here as the human, in anin his ear tithesis to God, have not imparted this knowledge to him it has come to him by revelation, even from the Father ivho That this idea of inspiration did not limit is in heaven. ;

;

the quickening of a certain disposition or perception, but in the conception of Jesus implied also the inspiration of conscious thoughts, appears sufficiently clearly from Luke itself to

where Jesus says " For the Holy Spirit shall teach very hour what ye ought to say." This does not prove that Jesus explains the Old Testament to have originated in this same way, but it shows that there was nothing strange to Jesus in the idea of such an inspiration, that He considered it by no means unworthy of God, and that He raised its reality above all doubt. And if we connect with :

5'ou in that

this the fact, that the

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into

his consciousness, a concrete thought,

xii. 12,

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contemporaries of Jesus explained the

Scriptures of the Old Covenant from such an inspiration,

and that Jesus nowhere contradicted this representation, but rather confirmed it by His use of the Old Testament, then no one has the right to combat, by an appeal to Jesus, such an inspiration of the Old Testament as one less worthy of God. From the above it rather appears that Jesus viewed the Old Testament in the same way as His contemporaries and as the Christian Church has done throuo-hout all acres

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