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THE CHURCH BEFORE AND AFTER CHRIST55He performed a work in those days that was intended more directly for the Church of the New Testament, which also had a different but not less important significance for the saints of the Old Covenant. This was the work of Prophecy. As Christ decl ...
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S8HOLY SCRIPTURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENTment between the thoughts which theThe Holylife reflectedWordin the divinethought and thebegets in our minds.Scripture is like a diamond: in the darkit islikeapiece of g ...
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IfourtbCbaptenTHE HOLY SCRIPTURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.XII.The HolyScripture." All Scriptureisgiven by inspiration ofGod, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness ; that thema ...
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;THE HOLY SCRIPTURE andlife,which were invisibleessentials.his57to us because our hearts lacked the appeals to the child is not in the picture, but in and imagination; the cooperation of the features inWhatmemorythe painting an ...
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:THE HOLY SCRIPTURE man of God may be perfect a man of God by divine" i.e.,a59manformerly of the world, made be perfected by the Holy Spirit; wherefore he is already perfect in Christ through the Word. To this end, as St. Paul declares, the Scripture was ...
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—XIII.TheScripture a Necessity. "For whatsoeverthings were writtenaforetime wore written for our learning, thatwe throughpatience andcomfort of the Scriptures might have hope." Rom. xv. 4.That Spiritusesitthe Bibl ...
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THE SCRIPTURE A NECESSITY6iWhile Eve was fully herself, Satan began to discuss the matter He wrought upon her consciousness with words and representations, and she, allowing this, drank the poison, fell, and dragged her husband with her. Had not God thus foretold it? Man's fall was ...
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HOLY SCRIPTURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT62We knowclear impressions.heaven must be beautiful and en-trancing, but a concrete conception ofNor can we havemanit isout of the question.clear ideas of the relation of the glorifiedS ...
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:THE SCRIPTURE A NECESSITY63But the two should not be separated. Redemption was not first completed and then recorded in Scripture. Such conception would be mechanical and unspiritual, directly contradicted by the naturewhich is living and life-giving. Scripture was pr ...
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64HOLY SCRIPTURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENTBut notwithstanding differences, the fact remains that the Holy Spirit mastered the problem of bringing to man lost in sin, by human language intelligible to all nations and ages, the world of divine thoughts, so as to use them as the instrument ...