Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 488

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THE INSPIRATION OF

§ 80.

[Div. Ill

reaction, but this was aimed exclumanner how, and not against the matter By that reaction against the manner of execution, the itself. matter itself was rather strengthened. The adoption of the reaction took place for avTiXeyofieva was reacted against

There was indeed some

sively against the

;

the sake of introducing other writings, which did not belong to modify the text of universally acknowlto the canon ;

all sorts of heterodoxy but but a proof that the conflict was

edged writings, agreeably to this threefold reaction

waged with tian

is

:

reference to certain products of the

literature,

first

Chris-

but very definitely not with reference to

That such a man the acceptance of a new Holy Scripture. as Paul alone wrote perhaps ten times as much as is contained from his hand in the

New

nature of the case.

reasonable to suppose that one

of the apostles

Is

it

Testament,

lies in

the verj-

How large, then, never wrote anything ? must have been about one hundred

the literary product

years after

Jesus'

birth.

But no proposal was made

to

even all the add the whole complement to the Old Testament. the apostolic writings, as of this literary inheritance, not

There was room for choice, there was room for sifting. And in this lies the recognition This will do that, not. of the distinction between what should and what should This certainly was not not be received as authoritative. ;

effected mechanically nor conventionally nor scholastically.

Whatever in the end compiled this Scripture canonically, not simply human sharp-sightedness, but rather it was Divine providence. Even so, however, it appears from the threefold reaction, mentioned sciousness a second

above, that with

Holy Scripture

as such

clear con-

was

in view,

and that the assignment of such high authority to this or that book was contested, but not the reality of such an It is evident that this occasioned a authority as such.

period of uncertainty

;

but

tainty concerned the whole

let it

New

short time, and, sooner than

be observed that this uncerTestament only for a very

could be expected, reduced

In that limited sense, it. however, this uncertainty could not remain wanting, for the itself

to a very small

part of

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