Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 378

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§ 68.

REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING

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be placed in a line with the ever abnormal inspiration.

In-

spiration, therefore, is here taken in connection with all sorts

Holy

of otlier operations of the

Spirit, as

poral, organic process, the fruit of

Holy

The

an abnormal, tem-

which

before us in

lies

draw the boundary lines sharply here between the normal and the abnormal, exthe

pressed

The not

Scripture.

itself

desire to

most clearly in the rejection

third point of view, that of the essentially

differ

from

this.

of the apocrypha.

Romish Church, does

Rome

the

rejects

also

mystic-atomistic character of inspiration, and interprets

Rome

organically.

also affirms a difference,

though

it

in a

weaker form, between the first growth and the later life of this plant. The abnormal character of inspiration is equally

Rome as to us. About the authority, therefore, Holy Scripture, you will not readily come in controBut the point of view held by Rome versy with Rome. certain to of the

differs entirely

from

when Rome does not bring

ours,

inspiration to a close with Patmos, but continues

present day in the Church, even in the bishop of

special

it till

Rome

the

e ca-

This exerts a twofold influence. First, as adds to the content of the Holy Scriptures, and

thedra loquente. far as

it

again, in so

Scripture.

among

much

as the

Church absolutely

interprets the

Since the prophets and apostles are no more

the living, but the Church always

is,

it

is

evident

that neither prophets nor apostles can exercise any com-

pulsory authority in the Church, while by pretation the Church has

the

utterances

of

it

its official inter-

always in her power to interpret

prophets and apostles as she

likes.

should be observed, not only that from this view-point ration

is

It

ins]3i-

always continuous, but also that the inspiration of

the past becomes of secondary significance, compared to the

And this is what Rome has come by weakening the difference between the normal and the The operations of the Holy Spirit in the sphere abnormal. of the new life through the ordained ministry and the couninspiration of later times. to,

cils of ecclesiastics

tion of Moses,

are placed on one line with the inspira-

David or Isaiah

;

the apocrypha share the

authority of the canonical books; and on the other side, the

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