Reference: Scripture
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Or SCRIPTURES, the writings, that is, by eminence; the inspired writings, comprising the Old and New Testaments. See BIBLE.
Easton
invariably in the New Testament denotes that definite collection of sacred books, regarded as given by inspiration of God, which we usually call the Old Testament (2Ti 3:15-16; Joh 20:9; Ga 3:22; 2Pe 1:20). It was God's purpose thus to perpetuate his revealed will. From time to time he raised up men to commit to writing in an infallible record the revelation he gave. The "Scripture," or collection of sacred writings, was thus enlarged from time to time as God saw necessary. We have now a completed "Scripture," consisting of the Old and New Testaments. The Old Testament canon in the time of our Lord was precisely the same as that which we now possess under that name. He placed the seal of his own authority on this collection of writings, as all equally given by inspiration (Mt 5:17; 7:12; 22:40; Lu 16:29,31). (See Bible; Canon.)
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Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets -- I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;
'All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
on these -- the two commands -- all the law and the prophets do hang.'
'Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;
And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'
for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.
but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus; every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,
Hastings
1. The word 'Scripture' (Lat. scriptura, 'a writing,' 'something written') is used for the Bible as a whole, more often in the plural form 'Scriptures,' and also more properly for a passage of the Bible. It appears as tr of the Greek graph
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And it cometh to pass, in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, the king hath sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Jehovah, saying,
As it hath been written in the prophets, 'Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' --
And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:
which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings --
and David saith, 'Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;
but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
and unto the messengers, indeed, He saith, 'Who is making His messengers spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire;'
Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear --
in its being said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'
and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul -- according to the wisdom given to him -- did write to you, as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.
Morish
This word occurs but once in the Old Testament, where an angel speaks of 'the scripture of truth.' Da 10:21. In the New Testament the various parts of the Old Testament are referred to as 'the scriptures'; they are the 'holy scriptures,' 2Ti 3:15; they must needs be fulfilled; they cannot be broken. Joh 10:35; Ac 17:2,11. Some erred because they did not know the scriptures. Mt 22:29. And 'all scripture' is God-inspired, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, or complete, fully fitted to every good work. 2Ti 3:16-17. It is in short a God-inspired and infallible revelation to man, and especially to those who are by grace in relationship with Him. As in a nation 'the records' are referred to as authority, so in the church, it is 'the scriptures' that bind the conscience, and should be an end of all controversy. To understand them the teaching of the Holy Spirit is needed, for "the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life."
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but I declare to thee that which is noted down in the Writing of Truth, and there is not one strengthening himself with me, concerning these, except Michael your head.
And Jesus answering said to them, 'Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;
if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)
and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,
and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;
and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus; every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness, read more. that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.
Smith
Scripture.
[See BIBLE]
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Watsons
SCRIPTURE, a term most commonly used to denote the writings of the Old and New Testament, which are sometimes called The Scriptures, sometimes the sacred or holy writings, and sometimes canonical scripture. See BIBLE.