The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 118

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HOLY SCRIPTURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

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numbering, collecting of documents, sifting, recording, etc. It recognizes all these matters which are plainly discernible in Scripture.

Style, diction, repetitions, all retain their value.

But

it

must

be insisted that the Scripture as a whole, as finally presented to the Church, as to content, selection, and arrangement of documents, structure, and even words, owes its existence to the Holy Spirit, i.e., that the men employed in this work were consciously or unconsciously so controlled and directed by the Spirit, in all their thinking, selecting, sifting, choice of words, and writing, that their final

product, delivered to posterity, possessed a perfect warrant of

divine and absolute authority.

That the Scriptures themselves present a number of objections and in many aspects do not make the impression of absolute inspiration does not militate against the other fact that all this spiritual

by the Holy Spirit. For the room for the exercise It was not intended to be approved by the critical judgoi faith. ment and accepted on this ground. This would eliminate faith. labor was controlled and directed

Scripture had to be constructed so as to leave

Faith takes hold directly with the fulness of our personality. To faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical

have

thought, but in the life of the soul.

To

believe in the Scripture

is

which thou, O lifeless man art not capable, except He that caused Holy the Quickener, the Holy Ghost, enable thee. Scripture to be written is the same that must teach thee to read it. Without Him this product of divine art can not affect thee. Hence an act of

we

life of

!

believe First, that the

Holy

human construction of the men might more readily live in it.

Spirit chose this

Scripture purposely, that

we

as

Secondly, that these stumbling-blocks were introduced that

might be impossible

for us to lay hold of its content with

intellectual grasp, without the exercise of faith.

it

mere

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