The Inspiration and Authority of Holy Scripture: A Study in the Literature of the First Five Centuries, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

Holy Scripture the classical documents of his religion :its Books are the titledeeds of his faith. He believes that in them is contained a record of Divine Revelation made by men under the impulse of the Spirit of God. His belief is enshrined in the words of the Nicene Creed, I believe in the Holy Ghost .. .W ho spake by the prophets. To the Church, for the first century and a half of its existence, the Law and the Prophets were still the only Canonical Scriptures ;later on, when the Gospels came to be received as the Christian Canon, they were welcomed as a further instalment of the Holy Spirit swork, Who spake (to quote the words of the Cappadocian Creed) in the Law and in the Prophets and in the Gospels ;1 the Church believed that the Spirit Who inspired the Prophets is identical with the Paraclete Who descended on the A postles.2 Thus both the Jewish and the Christian 1H ort, Dissertations, p. 146. 8A mbrose :M igne, P. L. xvi. 747.
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