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GRAPHICAL INSPIRATION

§ 85.

consciousness of the

spirit

to

apostles,

control their spirit and

[Div. Ill

and caused a mightier organ of speech.

under the category

falls

only in so far as

establishes the fact, that an

it

This

of inspiration

speaking in tongues

inspiring

mind (auctor mentalis) outside of them gave direction to what was heard from them. Our space does not allow a closer study of this speaking with tongues, neither does

it

Be

our way simply stated, however, that they belong to the ecstatic According to 1 Cor. xiv., the content of the phenomena. glossolaly could be interpreted, but he who spake did not lie in

to consider here the charismata in general.

it

understand it himself. In so far, therefore, it must be judged by the analogy of the mesraerizer who causes his medium, who knows no Latin, to write Latin words, provided, however, this phenomenon be not taken as being brought about by causing the spirit to sleep, but, on the contrary, as wrought

by high exaltation. § 85.

Q-raphical Inspiration

All that has thus far been said of inspiration does not refer Suppose, at all to the Holy Scriptures as canonical writings.

you knew that from the consciousness of God, Spirit, inspiration had taken place in the consciousness of psalmists, teachers of wisdom, prophets and apostles, what warrant would this be, that what the Holy Scripture offers you, was really taken from the sphere of this inspiration, and had come to you in a sufficiently trustworthy form ? What has been said thus far of the means and indeed, that

by the Holy

forms of inspiration refers to the prophetic, psalmodic, chokmatic and apostolic appearance among the people, in the gate, at the temple

and

in the first Christian circles.

The

field

which this inspiration covered was incomparably larger than Think how that which bounds the domain of the Scripture. much must have been spoken b}^ a man like Isaiah during

Compare with this book in our Hebrew Bible, of a little more than four quires, and you will be readily convinced that Isaiah spoke at least ten or twenty times as much again. How all

the years of his prophetic ministry.

his small

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