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| Granted that the Apostles Transmitted the Whole Doctrine of Truth, May Not the Churches Have Been Unfaithful in Handing It On? Inconceivable that This Can Have Been the Case.
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XXVII.—Granted that the Apostles Transmitted the Whole Doctrine
of Truth, May Not the Churches Have Been Unfaithful in Handing It On?
Inconceivable that This Can Have Been the Case.
Since, therefore, it is incredible that the
apostles were either ignorant of the whole scope of the message which
they had to declare,2139
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prædicationis. | or failed to make
known to all men the entire rule of faith, let us see whether, while
the apostles proclaimed it, perhaps, simply and fully, the churches,
through their own fault, set it forth otherwise than the apostles had
done. All these suggestions of distrust2140
you may find put forward by the heretics. They bear in mind how
the churches were rebuked by the apostle: “O foolish Galatians,
who hath bewitched you?”2141
and, “Ye did
run so well; who hath hindered you?”2142
and how the epistle actually begins: “I marvel that ye are so
soon removed from Him, who hath called you as His own in grace, to
another gospel.”2143
That they likewise
(remember), what was written to the Corinthians, that they “were
yet carnal,” who “required to be fed with milk,”
being as yet “unable to bear strong meat;”2144
who also “thought that they knew
somewhat, whereas they knew not yet anything, as they ought to
know.”2145
When they raise the
objection that the churches were rebuked, let them suppose that they
were also corrected; let them also remember those (churches),
concerning whose faith and knowledge and conversation the apostle
“rejoices and gives thanks to God,” which nevertheless even
at this day, unite with those which were rebuked in the privileges of
one and the same institution.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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