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Early Voices on Bible Study
The Church Fathers faced two big questions: “What is Scripture?” and “How should we read it?”
posted 7/01/2008 08:54AM
Why Two Books? "All the apostles taught that there were indeed two testaments among the two peoples: but that it was one and the same God who appointed both for the advantage of those people.… who were to believe in God.… [T]he first testament was not given without reason, or to no purpose, or in an accidental sort of manner; but… exhibited a type of heavenly things… and foreshadowed the images of those things which now actually exist in the Church, in order that our faith might be firmly established." Irenaeus, Against Heresies 4.32
Garden of Delights. "All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at the beautiful garden of Scripture. It is fragrant, sweet, and blooming with various sounds of spiritual and divinely inspired birds. They sing all around our ears, capture our hearts, comfort the mourners, pacify the angry, and fill us with everlasting joy." John of Damascus, Exact Exposition of the ...
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