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THE INSPIRATION OF

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There follows, indeed, a double "that" (iW): (1) that they may all be one, and (2) that the world may believe It is self-evident that the unity that thou didst send me. merely to the immediate converts of believers cannot refer of that time, and in the same way that the cosmos of all

tion.

Now look at verse 14, ages must receive this witness. p where Jesus declares that He has given this Logos as a word of God first to the apostles, and that it is that Logos which, by the apostolate, is to be brought within the reach of the world of all ages, and it follows from this that in the mind of Jesus this apostolic witness must remain available in a fixed form after their death. therefore, in

which

Entirely in the same sense,

in Matt, xxviii. 19 he extends the sig-

and till the end saw the excepthemselves apostles the That of the world. among other shown is apostolate tional significance of the he dewhich 1-3, in things by John in his First Epistle, i. that they (1) clares of himself and of his fellow-apostles nificance of the apostolate to all the nations

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received the manifestation so realistically that he even says "and our hands have handled;" and (2) that they were

and (3) that the fruit must be the adoption of converts into the fellowship of the apostolate, because by this fellowship only could they enter into the mystical union with God and His called to preach this manifestation

;

of this preaching

We

even see Paul taking measures, as long as the to fill in the gap, when to Timothy he Scriptura " which thou hast heard from me things the And writes Christ.

still tarries,

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among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also" (2 Tim. ii. 2). The conception lies expressed very clearly in this that the apostolate brings something to the world that main for all time the fixed and reliable tradition.

is

to re-

This significance of the apostolate extends itself even when notice is taken of those utterances of Jesus

farther,

contained in John xiv. 25, 26; xv. 26, 27; xvi. 12, etc. In John xvi. 12-15, the difference is clearly anticipated, which later on was to assert itself between the gospel (to

/" eva'^'^eXiov) and the apostolate (6 a7r6aTo\o<;)

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The

task

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