Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 473

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Chap.

not

lie

THE TESTIMONY OF THE APOSTLES

§ 78.

II]

at hand,

449

and deeper insight only discovers it. And no play of magic with the word.

yet, this deeper insight is

One may

readily acquire

it if

only one

is

not dull of hearing.

If one is but mature, he is able of himself to enjoy this strong meat, for they "by reason of use have their senses It is therefore a mysterious meaning not inexercised."

cluded in it by the writer, but by the Holy Spirit, which now from behind is revealed by that same Holy Spirit to those no less broadly prepared example of this who are perfect.

A

where a spiritual-typical significance Red Sea and to the events in the wilderness, which could not have been intended by the That meaning was beyond him, writer of the narrative. mind of the primary author to itself from the and directed " upon whom the ends of the ages are come." Now only, us x. 1-18,

is

given in 1 Cor.

is

attached to the crossing of the

because the antitypical has come, can the typical be understood. It

can scarcely be denied, therefore, that in the apostolic the conviction was prevalent that, without contro-

circle, A'ersy,

the

Old Testament had come

into existence as a

must be viewed as This shows that Jesus, Avho knew this conviction, did not contradict it, but put His seal upon it in His intercourse with His disciples. The apostolic use of the Old Testament tends to give us a better knowledge of Jesus' judgment concerning this codex, and, so far sacred codex by Divine inspiration, and

clothed with Divine authority.

as in Jesus itself

the self-testimony of the Scripture expresses

most clearly and correctly, to make us know how the

Scripture itself desires us to esteem

it.

The

different objec-

tions that have been raised against this apostolic use of the]

Old Testament, particularly upon the ground of Gal. iv. 2124 and 1 Cor. x. 1-13, cannot here be examined. The question, indeed, what use the apostles have made of the Old Testament,

is

not

critical

nation, therefore, of these objections clopedia, but

however,

in

may be

the

The

but historic. is

exami-

not in place in Ency-

disciplina canonica.

considered here, because

upon the use made by the apostles

critical

it

of the

One

objection,

really sheds light

Holy Scripture

of

J

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