Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 386

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§ 69.

THE RELATION BETWEEN

found, must be answered without hesitation as follows

[Div. Ill

:

In the

Holy Scripture alone. If, however, this is taken as if the knowledge of God hidden in the Bible, but not the Bible itself, has come to the sinner from God, then a link in the chain is cracked, and the chain For then indeed the Bible as such is nothing but breaks. an accidental, human annotation, and we have first to decide which parts of it do or do not hold firm. As criterium for if we had, the whole this we have no individual inspiration central-organic revelation of a would again fall conception away. Hence we have no other criterium at our disposal than our natural principium. And thus the outcome of it must be, that from this untenable view-point you not only ravel out the Scripture by historic criticism, but also annul the content of the central Revelation and reduce it to the natural principium, in order finally to deny every special principium, and after the completed round of the circle to return to the nothing with which you began. Thus indeed it has actually taken place. Having stripped the whole Scripture of its leaves, having peeled and shelled it, we come back, after a struggle of eighteen centuries, by way of Origen, to the Greek philosAristotle or Plato. ophers, and the choice remains This could not be otherwise, as soon as once the Scripture was placed outside the Revelation, and it was for the sake of pro-

Holy Scripture and

in the

;

:

tection against this that our fathers emphasized so strongly

the Divine authorship of the Scripture as such.

Even

as

your person, by an optical process, photographs itself and produces its own image upon the collodion plate, so it is likewise the Revelation itself which has given its own image in the Holy Scripture. The Scripture as the document of the

central Revelation

is

therefore

organically connected

with that Revelation itself. The ice in which, in summer, cold is condensed and conserved for you, is organically one with the cold which it brings you. It was cold which caused the water to congeal, and from the ice the cool breath is Therefore in olden times it refreshingly wafted to you. was ever emphasized that the content and form of the Holy Scripture were most intimately and organically connected,

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