Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 471

Chap.

II]

§ 78.

THE TESTIMONY OF THE APOSTLES

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God." Of a similar tendency is what we read in Acts i. 16, where Peter says " It was needful that the Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spake before by the mouth The thought here quoted is not from David, of David." but from the Holy Ghost, even though the Holy Ghost made use of the mouth of David by which to utter it, and because the Holy Ghost took this thought from the counsel of God, In Matt. xiii. 34, 35, the apostle it had to be fulfilled. Matthew inserts the observation, that Jesus had to speak in parables, "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet." In a similar way the apostle John inserts his " that the Scripture might be fulfilled " in John xix. 24, and :

And all these expressions of "must needs be," necessary," " was not possible," " that the Scripture

elsewhere. "

it

is

might be

fulfilled," etc.,

have no meaning unless

it

was be-

lieved in the apostolic circle as an undoubted fact, that the

Old Testament presents us the Divine program

of things to

come, with such certainty as to render it entirely trustworthy. Hence there is no hesitancy in announcing God the Holy Acts Spirit as the speaking subject in the Old Testament. vii. 6, "And God spake on this wise"; Rom. ii. 4, "But what saith the answer of God unto him ? " Heb. i. 6, " When he bringeth in the firstborn into the world, he saith"; Heb. "; i. 13, " But of which of the angels hath he said at any time which the Holy Ghost spake Acts i. 16, " the Scripture before by the mouth of David"; Heb. x. 15, "And the Holy Ghost also beareth witness to us for after he hath said saith the Lord " expressions which are used not only when it concerns a saying of God (dictum Dei), but also when God is spoken of in the third person, as for instance Heb. iii. 7, " Wherefore, even as the Holy Ghost saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice," or with the mention of facts, as in Heb. ix. 8, " the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest." The stringing together of quotations from different books, such as appears in Acts i. 20, Rom. xi. 8, 26, xv. 9, 1 Tim. .

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;

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:

V. 18, etc.,

shows equally

the apostles the

human

clearly, that in the estimation of

authors

fall

entirely in the back-

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