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which nothing more can be added.

And

HOLY SCRIPTURES fore

was lacking;

after

this is the second point that

IN

we emphasize.

Through the apostles the Church received something not possessed by Israel nor imparted by Christ.

Christ Himself declares have yet many things to say unto you, but ye can not bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth for He shall not speak from Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak and He will shew you things to come. He shall glorify Me; for He shall receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto you" (John xvi. 12-14), St. Paul spoke not less clearly, saying: " That the mystery which was kept secret since the world began was now made manifest" (Rom, xvi. 25). And again " To make men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which from all ages was hid in God." And again: " The mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is " I

;

;

:

made manifest

to his saints" (Col.

i. 16). Finally, St. John dewhat they had looked upon with their eyes, and their hands had handled of the Word of Life, which was with the Father, and which is manifested. Altho we do not deny that the germ of saving knowledge was given in Paradise, to the Patriarchs, and to Israel yet the Scripture teaches distinctly that truth was revealed to the Patriarchs, unknown in Paradise to Israel, of which the Patriarchs were ignorant; and by Jesus, truth that was hidden from Israel. In like manner, truth not declared by Jesus was revealed to the Church by

clares that the apostles testify of

;

;

the holy apostolate.

Against this last statement, however, objections are raised. unbelieving writers of the present century have frequently asserted that not Jesus, but Paul was the real founder of Christianity while others have frequently exhorted us to abandon the orthodox theology of St. Paul, and to return to the simple teachings of

Many ;

Jesus; especially to His

And

really, the

more

Sermon on

the Mount.

is studied the more obvious the difference between the Sermon on the Mount and the Epistle to the Romans will appear. Not as tho the two contradict each other, but in this way, that the latter contains elements of truth, new rays

the Scripture

not found in the former. one objects to the doctrines of the apostles, as does the Groninger School, it is natural to place the gospels above the epistles.

of light, If

Hence the

fact that

many half-believers still receive the Parables and

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