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GRAPHICAL INSPIRATION

§ 85.

laiiy to special providence

[Div. Ill

(quoad providentiam specialem).

For instance, the fact that the Epistle to the Colossians is, and the epistle to the Laodiceans is not, included, may have been caused by the preservation of the one and the loss of There is, then, no question of a choice by men, the other. nor of any inspiration to guide that human choice. It was simply the providence of God which alloived one to be lost and the other to be kept. To us it would be even preferable to treat this whole matter under the science of canonics, disciplina canonica (which follows later), and much confusion

would have been prevented, if this Divine activity in behalf of the Canon had always been distinguished in principle from Now, indeed, there is a confusion of the real inspiration. ideas, which to many renders a clear insight almost impossiA content like that of the second Psalm was certainly ble. inspired to David, when this song loomed before his spirit and shaped it

itself in a poetical

This, however, did not assign

form.

a place in the Scripture, neither did this sanction

inspired part of the

Holy

Scripture.

Since

it

as

an

we have been

accustomed to pay almost no attention to the original inand for centuries have applied inspiration indis-

spiration,

criminately to

content and

all

parts

of

Scripture,

according to their

form, ecclesiastical parlance does not permit the

conception of inspiration to be entirely ignored in the comThis piling and editing of the books of the Holy Scripture. is

the less necessary, since in this compiling and editing an

from the side of God was exerted upon the spirit of man, which, to some extent, is of one kind with real inspiration. Let it never be lost from sight, however, that this graphic inspiration was merely one of several factors used by God in the " divine activity in behalf of the Canon." This graphic inspiration is least of all of a uniform charac-

activity

ter,

of

but

it differs

the Holy

according to the nature of the several parts It is least evident, as observed before,

Scripture.

in the apostolic epistles, since these

were prepared in writing.

Neither can graphic inspiration have been greatly significant

which were bound to their writing by the poet himself.

in purely lyrical poetic-productions,

poetic form,

and committed

to

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