Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 470

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446

THE TESTIMONY OF THE APOSTLES

§ 78.

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exhortation rests upon the fact that Sarah called her hus-

band "lord."

In the apostolic circle, no such quotations could have been made, if the conviction had not been prevalent that inspiration extended even to the word and to the form of the word which connection between form and con;

tent,

Paul

also confirms for himself,

when

in 1 Cor.

ii.

13,

he declares " Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Spirit teaches In this statecomparing spiritual things with spiritual." " " " human and the pneumatic " cannot ment, indeed, the stand over against each other as the intellectual and the :

mystical.

mind;

He

also bears witness instrumentally

his speaking, also,

is

through his

the expression of intelligence,

mostly calculated to address the understanding rather than the emotions. The " pneumatica," therefore, cannot intend

anything

else

but the fountain from which the impulse for and that fountain, he says, does not

his utterances proceeds, lie

in

affects

man, but in the Spirit, and thus him from without.

in a

power which

must be conceded, that in the apostolic circle also the Old Testament was considered as the predestined tra7iscript of God's counsel, of which the instruIn the third place

it

mental author has, often unconsciously, produced the record, and which, as being of a higher origin, has Divine authority. This appears clearly in Acts ii. 24, 25, where Peter says " It was not possible that He should be holden of death." And why does he deem this impossible ? Because Jesus was the Son Undoubtedly for this also of this, however, Peter of God ? :

;

makes no mention, but thus written in Ps. xvi.

states as the only reason that :

was Holy

it

" Neither wilt thou give thy

One to see corruption." Hence the "impossibility" rests upon the fact that the opposite to this was written in the Old Testament an argument which suits only with the supposition that the Old Testament furnishes us with the program of what must happen according to God's counsel and will. To that counsel and to that foreknowledge of God he refers us " Him being delivdefinitely in what immediately precedes ered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of ;

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