Reference: Inspiration
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That supernatural influence exerted on the minds of the sacred writers by the Spirit of God, in virtue of which they unerringly declared his will. Whether what they wrote was previously familiar to their own knowledge, or, as in many cases it must have been, an immediate revelation from heaven; whether his influence in any given case was dictation, suggestion, or superintendence; and however clearly we may trace in their writings the peculiar character, style, mental endowments, and circumstances of each; yet the whole of the Bible was written under the unerring guidance of the Holy Ghost, 2Ti 3:16.
Christ everywhere treats the Old Testament Scripture as infallibly true, and of divine authority-the word of God. To the New Testament writers inspiration was promised, Mt 10:19-20; Joh 14:26; 16:13; and they wrote and prophesied under its direction, 1Co 2:10-13; 14:37; Ga 1:12; 2Pe 1:21; 3:15; Re 1:1,10-19.
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And when they deliver you up, have no care how or what ye should speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak. For ye yourselves are not speaking, but the spirit of your father speaking in you.
But the Intercessor, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, the same shall teach you all things, and he shall remind you of all things which I spake to you.
And when he should come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he should hear, shall he speak: and he shall announce to you the things coming.
And God has revealed to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, and the deep things of God. For who of men knows the things of men except the spirit of man in him? so also the things of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God. read more. And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God. Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual.
If any think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him observe what I write to you, that they are the commands of the Lord.
For I neither received it from man, neither was I taught, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice:
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants what things must be with speed; and he signified having sent by his angel to his servant John:
I was in the Spirit In the day pertaining to the Lord, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send to the seven churches which in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. read more. And I turned back to see the voice which spake with me. And having turned back, I saw seven gold chandeliers; And in the midst of the seven chandeliers one like to the Son of man, dressed in a garment descending to the feet, and girded at the breast with a golden girdle. And his head and hairs white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire; And his feet as brass of Lebanon, as refined by fire in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters. And having in his right hand seven stars: and going out of his mouth a sharp two-mouthed sword: and his sight as the sun shines in his power. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he put his right hand upon me, saying to me, Be not afraid;I am the the first and the last: And he living, and I was dead; and, behold, I am living for the times of times, Amen; and have the keys of hades and of death. Write the things thou hast seen, and which are, and which are about to be after these things;
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that extraordinary or supernatural divine influence vouchsafed to those who wrote the Holy Scriptures, rendering their writings infallible. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God" (R.V., "Every scripture inspired of God"), 2Ti 3:16. This is true of all the "sacred writings," not in the sense of their being works of genius or of supernatural insight, but as "theopneustic," i.e., "breathed into by God" in such a sense that the writers were supernaturally guided to express exactly what God intended them to express as a revelation of his mind and will. The testimony of the sacred writers themselves abundantly demonstrates this truth; and if they are infallible as teachers of doctrine, then the doctrine of plenary inspiration must be accepted. There are no errors in the Bible as it came from God, none have been proved to exist. Difficulties and phenomena we cannot explain are not errors. All these books of the Old and New Testaments are inspired. We do not say that they contain, but that they are, the Word of God. The gift of inspiration rendered the writers the organs of God, for the infallible communication of his mind and will, in the very manner and words in which it was originally given.
As to the nature of inspiration we have no information. This only we know, it rendered the writers infallible. They were all equally inspired, and are all equally infallible. The inspiration of the sacred writers did not change their characters. They retained all their individual peculiarities as thinkers or writers. (See Bible; Word of God.)
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All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice:
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The supernatural action of the Holy Spirit on the mind of the sacred writers whereby the Scriptures were not merely their own but the word of God. Scripture not merely contains but is the word of God. As the whole Godhead was joined to the whole manhood, and became the Incarnate Word, so the written word is at once perfectly divine and perfectly human; infallibly authoritative because it is the word of God, intelligible because in the language of men. If it were not human we should not understand it; if it were not divine it would not be an unerring guide. The term "scriptures" is attached to them exclusively in the word of God itself, as having an authority no other writings have (Joh 5:39; 10:34-36). They are called "the oracles of God" (Ro 3:2), i.e. divine utterances.
If Scripture were not plenarily and verbally sanctioned by God, its practical utility as a sure guide in all questions directly or indirectly affecting doctrine and practice would be materially impaired, for what means would there be of distinguishing the false in it from the true? Inspiration does not divest the writers of their several individualities of style, just as the inspired teachers in the early church were not passive machines in prophesying (1Co 14:32). "Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty" (2Co 3:17). Their will became one with God's will; His Spirit acted on their spirit, so that their individuality had free play in the sphere of His inspiration. As to religious truths the collective Scriptures have unity of authorship; as to other matters their authorship is palpably as manifold as the writers. The variety is human, the unity divine. If the four evangelists were mere machines narrating the same events in the same order and words, they would cease to be independent witnesses. Their very discrepancies (only seeming ones) disprove collusion.
The solutions proposed in Harmonies, being necessarily conjectural, may or may not be the true ones; but they at least prove that the differences are not irreconcilable and would be cleared up if we knew all the facts. They test our faith, whether on reasonable evidence we will unreservedly believe His word in spite of some difficulties, designedly permitted for our probation. The slight variations in the Decalogue between Exodus 20 and its repetition Deuteronomy 5, and in Psalm 18 compared with 2 Samuel 22, in Psalm 14 compared with Psalm 53, and in New Testament quotations of Old Testament, (sometimes from Septuagint which varies from Hebrew, sometimes from neither in every word), all prove the Spirit-produced independence of the sacred writers who under divine guidance and sanction presented on different occasions the same substantial truths under different aspects, the one complementing the other.
One or two instances occur where the errors of transcribers cause a real discrepancy (2Ki 8:26, compared with 2Ch 22:2). A perpetual miracle alone could have prevented such very exceptional and palpable copyists' mistakes. But in seeming discrepancies, as between the accounts of the same event in different Gospels, each account presents some fresh aspect of divine truth; none containing the whole, but all together presenting the complete exhibition of the truth. Origen profoundly says: "in revelation as in nature we see a self concealing, self revealing God, who makes Himself known only to those who earnestly seek Him; in both we find stimulants to faith and occasions for unbelief." The assaults of adversaries on seemingly weak points have resulted in the eliciting of beautiful and delicate harmonies unperceived before; the gospel defenses have been proved the more impregnable, and the things meant to injure "have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel."
When once it is admitted that the New Testament writers were neither fanatics nor enthusiasts, (and infidelity has never yet produced a satisfactory theory to show them to have been either,) their miracles and their divine commission must also be admitted, for they expressly claim these. Thus, Paul (1Co 14:37), "if any man think himself a prophet, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord." And not only the things but the words; (1Co 2:13) "we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth." The "discerning of spirits" was one of the miraculous gifts in the apostolic churches. His appeal on the ground of miracles (1Co 2:4) which are taken for granted as notorious rather than asserted, (the incidental mention being a clear mark of truth because it excludes suspicion of design,) and to persons whose miraculous discernment of spirits enabled them to test such claims, is the strongest proof of the divine authority of his writings.
Peter (2Pe 3:16) classes Paul's epistles with "the other Scriptures"; therefore whatever inspiration is in the latter is in the former also. That inspiration excludes error from Scripture words, so far as these affect doctrine and morals, appears from Ps 12:6, "the words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times." As our Lord promised the disciples His Holy Spirit, to teach them how and what they should say before magistrates (Mt 10:19-20), much more did the Spirit "abiding" with the church "for ever" (Joh 14:16) secure for the written word, the only surviving infallible oracle, the inspiration of the manner as well as the matter. So (Joh 16:13) "the Spirit of truth will guide you into all (the) truth," namely, not truth in general but Christian truth.
Also (Joh 14:26) "the Holy Spirit shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you." "He shall testify of Me" (Joh 15:26) "He will show you things to come ... He shall receive of Mine and shall show it unto you" (Joh 16:13-14). Paul (2Ti 3:16) declares that no part of the written word is uninspired, but "ALL" (literally, "every scripture," i.e. every portion) is "profitable" for the ends of a revelation, "doctrine, reproof (conjuting error: the two comprehending speculative divinity; then follows practical), correction (setting one right, 1Co 10:1-10), instruction (disciplinary training: De 13:5; 1Co 5:13) in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works"; as it makes him "perfect" it must be perfect itself.
Some parts were immediately communicated by God, and are called "apocalypse" or "revelation," as that to John, and to Paul (2Co 12:1; Ro 16:25). Others, as the historical parts, are matter of human testimony. But inspiration was as much needed to write known facts authoritatively as to communicate new truths; else why should certain facts be selected and others be passed by? Inspired prohibition is as miraculous as inspired utterance. Had the evangelists been left to themselves, they doubtless would have given many details of Jesus' early life which our curiosity would have desired, but which divine wisdom withheld, in order to concentrate all our attention on Christ's ministry and death. The historical parts are quoted by Paul as God's "law," because they have His sanction and contain covert lessons of God's truth and His principles of governing the world and the church (Ga 4:21).
Considering the vast amount of Mariolatry and idolatry which subsequently sprang up, the hand of God is marked in the absence from the Gospel histories of aught to countenance these errors. Sacred history is like "a dial in which the shadow, as well as the light, informs us" (Trench). The Spirit was needed to qualify the writers for giving what they have given, a condensed yet full and clear portraiture of Messiah, calculated to affect all hearts in every nation, and to sow in them seeds of faith, hope, and love. The minor details, such as Paul's direction to Timothy to "bring his cloth and parchments," and to" drink a little wine for his stomach's sake and his infirmities," are vivid touches which give life and nature to the picture, making us realize the circumstances and personality of the apostle and his disciple, and have their place in the inspired record, as each leaf has in the
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And Jehovah spake to Moses face to face, as a man will speak to his friend. And he turned back to the camp; and his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the midst of the tent.
And he will say, Hear ye now, my word: If there shall be your prophet of Jehovah, in a vision I will be known to him; in a dream I will speak to him. Not so my servant Moses; he was faithful in all my house. read more. Mouth to mouth I will speak to him, and in appearance and not in enigmas; and the portion of Jehovah shall he behold: and wherefore were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall die, for he spake a turning away from Jehovah your God, having brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed thee from the house of servants, to thrust thee away from the way which Jehovah thy God commanded to go in it: and put thou away the evil from the midst of thee.
The spirit of Jehovah spake in me, and his word upon my tongue.
The son of twenty and two years was Ahaziah in his reigning.; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name Athaliah, daughter of Omri, king of Israel
The son of forty and two years was Ahaziah in his reigning, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name Athaliah, daughter of Omri.
And thou wilt protract over them many years, and thou wilt testify against them by thy spirit in the hand of thy prophets: and they gave not ear, and thou wilt give them into the hand of the people of the lands.
The sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings: silver tried in the crucible of the earth, purified seven times.
Prayer to Moses the man of God. O Jehovah, thou wert a refuge to us in generation and generation.
The lifting up of the word of Jehovahh in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus its gift: when to Jehovah the eye of man and all the tribes of Israel
The Lifting up of the word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, stretching forth the heavens and founding the earth, and forming the spirit of man in the midst of him.
The lifting up the word of Jehovah to Israel by the hand of Malachi.
For verily I say to you, Till heaven pass away, and earth, one iota, or one mark, should not pass away from the law, till all should be
And when they deliver you up, have no care how or what ye should speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak. For ye yourselves are not speaking, but the spirit of your father speaking in you.
For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the bride against her mother-in-law.
Verily I say to you, in the begotten of women has there not risen a greater than John the Immerser; but the less in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.
And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female,
I am God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
He says to them, How then does David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
Search the writings; for ye think in them to have eternal life: and these are they testifying of me.
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said; Ye are gods? If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the writing cannot be loosed;
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the writing cannot be loosed; Whom the Father consecrated., and sent into the world, say ye that thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God
Neither turn ye in your thoughts that it is profitable to us, that one man die for the people, and the nation perish not.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Intercessor, that should remain with you forever;
But the Intercessor, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, the same shall teach you all things, and he shall remind you of all things which I spake to you.
And when the Intercessor should come, which I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which comes from the Father, he shall testify of me:
And when he should come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he should hear, shall he speak: and he shall announce to you the things coming.
And when he should come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he should hear, shall he speak: and he shall announce to you the things coming. He shall honour me: for he shall take of mine, and announce to you.
Men, brethren, this writing must be filled up, which the Holy Spirit spake before by mouth of David concerning Judas, being guide to them having taken Jesus.
And suddenly was a sound from heaven as of a wind moving violently, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
For David says about him, I saw beforehand the Lord before me always, for he is of my right hand, that I be not moved: For this my heart was gladdened, and my tongue was transported with joy; and yet also shall my flesh encamp in hope: read more. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hades neither wilt thou give thy sanctified one to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt fill me with gladness with thy face. Men, brethren, it is permitted to speak with freedom of speech to you of the patriarch David, for he died and was buried, and his tomb is with us even till this day. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God swore with an oath to him, of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up Christ to sit upon his throne: Foreknowing, he spake of the rising up of Christ, that his soul was not left in hades, neither did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God raised up, of which all we are witnesses. Therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out this, which ye now see and hear.
But God, announced these things beforehand by the mouth of all his prophets, for Christ to suffer, he so completed.
Whom heaven must truly receive till time of restoration of all which God spake by the mouth of all his holy prophets from forever.
Having said by the mouth of David thy servant, That why were the nations insolent, and did the people practise vain things
Much according to every manner: for truly first were they trusted with the oracles of God.
And to him being able to support you according to my good news, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent from eternal times, And now made manifest, also by the prophetic writings according to the command of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith made known to all nations:
And my word and my proclaiming not in persuasible words of man's wisdom, but in manifestation of the Spirit and of power
Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual.
Deprive ye not one another, except somewhat of an agreement for a time, that ye might have leisure for fasting and prayer; and again upon the same ye might come together, lest Satan tempt you for your want of self command. And this I say according to indulgence, not according to order.
And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband:
And to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she assents to dwell with him, let him not send her away. And the woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he assents to dwell with her, let her not send him away. read more. For the unbelieving husband was consecrated in the wife, and the unbelieving wife was consecrated in the husband: for then are our children unclean; and now are they holy. And if the unbelieving is separated, let him be separated. A brother or a sister has not been reduced to slavery in such things as these: and God has called us in peace.
But for virgins I have not an order of the Lord: and I give an opinion as compassionated by the Lord to be faithful. I think therefore this to be good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man to be thus. read more. Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not a release. Hast thou been loosed from a wife seek thou not a wife. And if also thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. And such shall have pressure to the flesh: and I spare you. And this I say, brethren, the time is restricted; as to the rest, that they also having wives should be as not having; And they weeping, as not weeping; and they rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and they buying, as not possessing. And they using this world, as not using; for the form of this world passes away. But I will you to be free from care. The unmarried cares for things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord: And he married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife. The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband. And this I say for the advantage of yourselves; not that I shall cast a net upon you, but for the becoming, and occupied assiduously for the Lord without being turned away. And if any think to act unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she be past the vigor of youth, and so it ought to be, let him do what he will, he sins not; let them marry. And he who has stood firmly fixed in heart; not having necessity, and has power concerning his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his virgin, does well. So that he marrying does well; and he not marrying does better.
And I will not ye be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all immersed into Moses in the cloud, and in the sea; read more. And they all ate the same spiritual food And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual Rock following; and the Rock was Christ. But God was not contented with the most of them: for they were overthrown in the desert. And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired. Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand. Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
And let the prophets speak two or three, and let others decide.
And the spirits of the prophets are subjected to the prophets.
And the spirits of the prophets are subjected to the prophets.
If any think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him observe what I write to you, that they are the commands of the Lord.
For we write no others to you, but what ye either know or also observe; and I hope that also even to the end ye will observe;
For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.
And the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord, there freedom.
Indeed it is not profitable to me to boast. For I will come to visions and Revelation of the Lord.
Since seek proof of Christ speaking in me, who to you is no weak, but has power in you.
But I make known to you, brethren, the good news announced by me that it is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, neither was I taught, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
And to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as to many; but as to one: And to thy seed, who is Christ.
Tell me, those wishing to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly,
Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit:
For in him dwells all the completion of divinity bodily. And ye are completed in him, who is the head of all beginning and power:
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All things didst thou place under his feet. For in placing all things under him, thou didst leave nothing not subjected to him. And now we see not yet all things placed under him.
For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Let us therefore fear, lest a solemn promise being left to come into his rest, any of you should seem to have failed. For we also were announced of the good news, as well as they: but the word of the report profited them not, not being mixed with faith to them having heard. read more. For we having believed come into the rest, as he said, As I sware in my wrath, if they shall come into my rest: although the works having been from the foundation of the world. For he said somewhere of the seventh thus, And God ceased in the seventh day from all his works. And in this again, If they shall enter into my rest. Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief: Again he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after such time; as it is said, To day if ye would hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had caused them to rest, he would not have spoken of another day after these things. Therefore a celebration of a sabbath remains to the people of God. For he having come into his rest, he also has ceased from his works, as God from his own. Therefore we should be earnest to come into that rest, lest any should fall in the same pattern of unbelief.
Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these.
Knowing this first, that every prophecy of the writing is not of private solution. For prophecy was not once brought by the will of man: but holy men of God spake, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
As also in all the epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things difficult to understand, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also the rest of the writings, to their own perdition.
And if any take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the book of life, and from the holy city, and from the things written in this book.
Hastings
The subject comprises the doctrine of inspiration in the Bible, and the doctrine of the inspiration of the Bible, together with what forms the transition from the one to the other, the account given of the prophetic consciousness, and the teaching of the NT about the OT.
1. The agent of inspiration is the Holy Spirit (see p. 360) or Spirit of God, who is active in Creation (Ge 1:2; Ps 104:30), is imparted to man that the dust may become living soul (Ge 2:7), is the source of exceptional powers of body (Jg 6:34; 14:6,19) or skill (Ex 35:31); but is pre-eminently manifest in prophecy (wh. see). The NT doctrine of the presence and power of the Spirit of God in the renewed life of the believer is anticipated in the OT, inasmuch as to the Spirit's operations are attributed wisdom (Job 32:8; 1Ki 3:28; De 34:9), courage (Jg 13:25; 14:6), penitence, moral strength, and purity (Ne 9:20; Ps 51:11; Isa 63:10; Eze 36:26; Zec 12:10). The promise of the Spirit by Christ to His disciples was fulfilled when He Himself after the Resurrection breathed on them, and said, 'Receive ye the Holy Ghost' (Joh 20:22), and after His Ascension the Spirit descended on the Church with the outward signs of the wind and fire (Ac 2:2-3). The Christian life as such is an inspired life, but the operation of the Spirit is represented in the NT in two forms; there are the extraordinary gifts (charisms)
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And the earth was desolation and emptiness, and darkness over the face of the deep: and the spirit of God moved over the face of the waters.
And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.
And he will fill him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work;
And Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom; for Moses placed his hands upon him; and the sons of Israel will hear to him, and they will do as Jehovah commanded Moses.
And the spirit of Jehovah clothed Gideon, and he will strike upon the trumpet; and Abiezer will be called after him.
And the spirit of Jehovah will begin to move him in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and between Eshtaol.
And the spirit of Jehovah will fall suddenly upon him, and he will rend him as rending a kid, and nothing whatever in his hand: and he announced not to his father and to his mother what he did.
And the spirit of Jehovah will fall suddenly upon him, and he will rend him as rending a kid, and nothing whatever in his hand: and he announced not to his father and to his mother what he did.
And the spirit of Jehovah will fall suddenly upon him, and he will go down to Ashkelon and will strike from them thirty men, and he will take their spoils, and will give exchanges to those. announcing the enigma. And his anger will kindle, and he will go up to his father's house.
And thy good spirit thou gavest to instruct them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and water gavest thou to them for their thirst
But it is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty will cause them to understand.
But it is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty will cause them to understand.
Thou wilt not cast me away from thy face, and thou wilt not take thy holy spirit from me.
Thou wilt send forth thy spirit, they will be created: thou wilt renew the face of the earth.
They embittered and grieved his holy spirit; and he will turn to them for an enemy; he fought against them.
And I gave to you a new heart, and a new spirit will I give in the midst of you: and I turned away your heart of stone from your flesh, and I gave to you an heart of flesh.
And I poured out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications: and they looked to me whom they pierced, and they mourned for him as mourning for the only begotten, and being embittered for him as being embittered for the first-born.
All things were delivered to me by my Father; and none knows the Son, except the Father; nor knows any one the Father, except the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal
He says to them, How then does David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
And he said to them, O ye unwise, and slow in heart to believe in all things which the prophets spake:
But the Intercessor, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, the same shall teach you all things, and he shall remind you of all things which I spake to you.
And when he should come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he should hear, shall he speak: and he shall announce to you the things coming.
And having said this, he inspired, and says to them, Receive the Holy Spirit:
And suddenly was a sound from heaven as of a wind moving violently, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And seen to them were tongues divided as fire, and it sat upon Each one of them.
And having gifts different according to the grace given us, whether prophecy, according to the due proportion of faith; Whether service, in service: whether he teaching, in instruction; read more. Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.
And whom truly God set in the church, first the sent, second the prophets, third teachers, then powers, then graces of healings, helps, directions, kinds of tongues.
And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such is no law.
All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice:
For prophecy was not once brought by the will of man: but holy men of God spake, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
Morish
Though this word occurs in the Bible but once in reference to the scriptures, yet the one statement in which it is found is important and full of deep meaning: "Every scripture is divinely inspired literally, 'God-breathed', and is profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work." 2Ti 3:16-17. This places all scripture on one basis as to inspiration, whether it be historical, doctrinal, or prophetic. We learn by this passage that not simply the persons who wrote were inspired, but the writings themselves are divinely inspired. Cf. 2Pe 1:21.
All writings are composed of words, and if these writings are inspired, the words are inspired. This is what is commonly called 'verbal inspiration.' Other passages speak of the importance of 'words:' Peter said, "To whom shall we go? thou hast the words (??????) of eternal life," Joh 6:68: and we find those words in the Gospels. When it was a question of Gentiles being brought into blessing without being circumcised, James in his address appealed to the 'words' of the prophets. Ac 15:15. Paul in writing to the Corinthian saints said, "Which things also we speak, not in the 'words' (?????) which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth." 1Co 2:13. The Holy Spirit taught Paul what words to use. The whole of scripture forms the word of God, and both in the O.T. and in the N.T. we read of 'the words of God.' 1Ch 25:5; Ezr 9:4; Ps 107:11; Joh 3:34; 8:47; Re 17:17. Neither must His word be added to, or taken from. De 4:2; 12:32; Re 22:18-19.
The above passages should carry conviction to simple souls that every scripture is God-inspired. As nothing less than this is worthy of God, so nothing less than this would meet the need of man. Amid the many uncertain things around him he needs words upon which his faith can be based, and in the inspired scriptures he has them. The Lord Jesus said, "The words (??????) that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." Joh 6:63. He had the words of eternal life; and, through the grace of God, many a soul has found them to be such, and has no more doubt of the plenary inspiration of scripture than of the existence of God Himself.
It may be noted that scripture records the sayings of wicked men, and of Satan himself. It need scarcely be said that it is not the sayings but the records of them that are inspired. Paul also, when writing on the question of marriage, makes a distinction between what he wrote as his judgement, and what he wrote as commandments of the Lord. "I speak this by permission," he says; and again, "I give my judgement." 1Co 7:6,10,12,25. He was inspired to record his spiritual judgement and to point out that it was not a command.
Some have a difficulty as to what has been called the human element in inspiration. If the words of scripture are inspired, it has been asked, how is it that the style of the writer is so manifest? John's style, for instance, being clearly distinguishable from that of Paul. The simple answer is that it is as if one used, so to speak, different kinds of pens to write with. God made the mind of man as well as his body, and was surely able to use the mind of each of the writers He employed, and yet cause him to write exactly what He wished. God took possession of the mind of man to declare His own purposes with regard to man.
Further, it has been asserted that the doctrine of verbal inspiration is valueless, because of diversities in the Greek manuscripts, which in some places prevent any one from determining what are the words God caused to be written. But this does not in any way touch the question of inspiration, which is, that the words written were inspired by God. Whether we have a correct copy is quite another question. The variations in the Greek manuscripts do not affect any one of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, and only in a few places are the words doubtful.
Another objection to the value of verbal inspiration is that most persons read scripture in a translation, the words of which cannot, it is alleged, be said to be inspired. But if the translation conveys exactly the same meaning as in the original, the words can be said to be inspired: for instance, the words 'God is love,' may surely be said to be the same as ? ???? ????? ?????, or Deus caritas est, Dieu est amour, or Dio ? carit?, to those who can read them. It may be that the translations from which the above are taken cannot in all places be said to be the same as the Greek; but this only shows the great importance of each having a correct translation in his vernacular tongue. And it must not be forgotten that the Lord Himself and those who wrote the New Testament often quoted the Septuagint, which is a translation from the Hebrew; and they quoted it as scripture.
Nothing can exceed the importance of having true thoughts of the inspiration of scripture. As no human author would allow his amanuensis to write what he did not mean, so surely what is called the word of God is God's own production, though given through the instrumentality of man. Though there were many writers, separated by thousands of years, there is a divine unity in the whole, showing plainly that one and only one could have been its Author. That One can only have been the Almighty
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Ye shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, and ye shall not take away from it., to watch the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.
Every word which I command you, ye shall watch to do it: thou shalt not add upon it, and thou shalt not take away from it
All these the sons to Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God will give to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
And to me all will assemble, trembling at the word of the God of Israel for the transgression of the exile; and I sat astonished till the sacrifice of the evening.
For they embittered the sayings of God, and they despised the counsel of the Most High:
For he whom God sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure.
It is the spirit making alive; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go away? thou hast the words of eternal life.
He being of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear not, for ye are not of God.
And with this the words of the prophets agree: as has been written,
Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual.
And this I say according to indulgence, not according to order.
And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband:
And to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she assents to dwell with him, let him not send her away.
But for virgins I have not an order of the Lord: and I give an opinion as compassionated by the Lord to be faithful.
All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice: That the man of God might be perfect, finished for every good work.
For prophecy was not once brought by the will of man: but holy men of God spake, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
For God gave to their hearts to do his purpose, and to do one purpose, and to give their kingdom to the wild beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.
For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this book, If any add to these things, God will add to him the blows written in this book: And if any take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the book of life, and from the holy city, and from the things written in this book.
Smith
Inspiration.
Dr. Knapp given as the definition of inspiration, "an extra-ordinary divine agency upon teachers while giving instruction, whether oral or written, by which they were taught what and how they should write or speak." Without deciding on any of the various theories of inspiration, the general doctrine of Christians is that the Bible is so inspired by God that it is the infallible guide of men, and is perfectly trustworthy in all its parts, as given by God.
Watsons
INSPIRATION, the conveying of certain extraordinary and supernatural notices or thoughts into the soul; or it denotes any supernatural influence of God upon the mind of a rational creature, whereby he is formed to a degree of intellectual improvement, to which he could not have attained in his present circumstances in a natural way. In the first and highest sense, the prophets, evangelists, and Apostles are said to have spoken and written by divine inspiration. This inspiration of the Old Testament Scriptures is so expressly attested by our Lord and his Apostles, that among those who receive them as a divine revelation the only question relates to the inspiration of the New Testament. On this subject it has been well observed:
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And when they deliver you up, have no care how or what ye should speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak. For ye yourselves are not speaking, but the spirit of your father speaking in you.
Therefore, having gone, disciple all nations; immersing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:
Therefore, having gone, disciple all nations; immersing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: Teaching them to keep all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of time. Amen.
And he made the twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them forth to proclaim,
And he having believed and having been immersed shall be saved; but he not having believed shall be condemned.
Since many have undertaken to arrange the narration concerning things rendered perfectly certain among us, As they delivered to us, who from the beginning being eyewitnesses, and servants of the word; read more. It seemed fitting to me also, having comprehended all things thoroughly from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainty of the words concerning which thou hast been instructed.
He hearing you hears me and he rejecting you rejects me; and he rejecting me rejects him having sent me.
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all they opposed to you shall not be able to contradict nor withstand.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Intercessor, that should remain with you forever; The Spirit of truth; which the world cannot receive, for it sees it not, neither knows: and ye know it; for it shall remain with you, and shall be in you.
But the Intercessor, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, the same shall teach you all things, and he shall remind you of all things which I spake to you.
This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you.
I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now. And when he should come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he should hear, shall he speak: and he shall announce to you the things coming.
And I ask not for these alone, but also for them believing in me through their word; That all might be one; as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, that they also be one in us; that the world might believe that thou sentest me.
Then truly many other signs did Jesus also before his disciples, which are not written in this small book: But these have been written, that ye might believe that Jesus is Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life in his name.
This is the disciple testifying of these, and having written this: and we know that his testimony is true.
Men, brethren, this writing must be filled up, which the Holy Spirit spake before by mouth of David concerning Judas, being guide to them having taken Jesus.
Having said by the mouth of David thy servant, That why were the nations insolent, and did the people practise vain things
In which also going to Damascus with authority, and superintendence from the chief priests, The middle of day, I saw in the way, O king, a light from heaven, above the brilliancy of the sun, having shone around me, and those going with me. read more. And we having all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why drivest thou me out? hard for thee to kick against goads. And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou drivest out. But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for, for this was I sent to thee, to take thee in hand, a servant and witness both of what things thou sawest, and of what I shall be seen to thee; Taking thee away from people, and nations, to whom I now send thee. To open their eyes, to turn them back from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, fur them to receive remission of sins, and inheritance with the consecrated by faith in me.
And being at variance with one another, they were let go, Paul having said one word, That well spake the Holy Spirit by Esaias the prophet to our fathers,
And God has revealed to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, and the deep things of God.
And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God. Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual.
If any think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him observe what I write to you, that they are the commands of the Lord.
Paul, sent, (not from men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, having raised him from the dead;)
For I neither received it from man, neither was I taught, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
And when God was contented, having separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me, by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might announce him the good news in the nations; I consulted not with flesh and blood: read more. Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them sent before me; but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.
Built upon the foundation of the sent, and of the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone;
Luke, the dearly beloved physician, greets you, and Demas.
And when the epistle shall be read among you, make that also it be read to the church in Laodicea; and that ye also read that from Laodicea.
For this also we return thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of God from our report, ye received not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, which is also energetic in you the believing.
All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice:
Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these.
For prophecy was not once brought by the will of man: but holy men of God spake, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
To remember the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and the command of us the sent of the Lord and Saviour:
And the longsuffering of our Lord deem ye salvation; as also our dearly beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you;
We are of God: he knowing God hears us; he is not of God who hears us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants what things must be with speed; and he signified having sent by his angel to his servant John:
I was in the Spirit In the day pertaining to the Lord, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send to the seven churches which in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. read more. And I turned back to see the voice which spake with me. And having turned back, I saw seven gold chandeliers; And in the midst of the seven chandeliers one like to the Son of man, dressed in a garment descending to the feet, and girded at the breast with a golden girdle. And his head and hairs white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire; And his feet as brass of Lebanon, as refined by fire in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters. And having in his right hand seven stars: and going out of his mouth a sharp two-mouthed sword: and his sight as the sun shines in his power. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he put his right hand upon me, saying to me, Be not afraid;I am the the first and the last: And he living, and I was dead; and, behold, I am living for the times of times, Amen; and have the keys of hades and of death. Write the things thou hast seen, and which are, and which are about to be after these things;
And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve sent of the Lamb.