The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 114

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XVI. Inspiration. "

And unto the angel of write,

These things

the church in Sardis saith

the seven Spirits of God."

We do

New

He

that hath

Rev.

iii. i.

Nothing has conand the orthodox view concerning it than the unhistoric and unnatural practise of considering the Scripture of the Old and the New Testatributed

not speak here of the

more

Testament.

and undermine

to falsify

ment at the same time. The Old Testament appears

first;

faith in the Scripture

then came the

Word

in the

and only after that the Scripture of the New Testament. In the study of the work of the Holy Spirit the same order ought to be observed. Before we speak of His work in the Incarnation, the inspiration of the New Testament may not even be mentioned. And until the Incarnation, there existed no other Scripture than the Old Testament. The question is now How is the work of the Holy Spirit to be flesh

;

:

traced in the construction of that Scripture?

We

have considered the question how

wonderful works God created a new to

make men

believe in these works,

He

was prepared.

it

life in this

world

spoke to

By

and, in order

;

man

either direct-

by the prophets. But this did not create ^ Sacred Scripture. If nothing more had been done there would never have been such a Scripture for events take place and belong to the past; the word 6nce spoken passes away with the ly or indirectly,

i.e.,

;

emotion in the consciousness. Human writing is the wonderful

man

to perpetuate

gift which God bestowed on what otherwise would have been forgotten and

utterly lost.

Tradition falsifies the report.

would not be

so.

Sin

is

sinful

men.

Among By

holy

men

this

sin a lie can be told.

and the root of all and thoughtlessness. These are the

also the cause of our lack of earnestness,

forgetfulness,

two

But we are

carelessness,

factors, lying

and carelessness, that rob tradition

of its value.

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