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| Of the Authority of the Canonical Scriptures Composed by the Divine Spirit.
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Chapter 3.—Of the Authority of
the Canonical Scriptures Composed by the Divine Spirit.
This Mediator, having spoken what
He judged sufficient first by the prophets, then by His own lips,
and afterwards by the apostles, has besides produced the Scripture
which is called canonical, which has paramount authority, and to
which we yield assent in all matters of which we ought not to be
ignorant, and yet cannot know of ourselves. For if we attain the
knowledge of present objects by the testimony of our own senses,451
| 451 A clause is here inserted to give
the etymology of prœsentia from prœ
sensibus. | whether
internal or external, then, regarding objects remote from our own
senses, we need others to bring their testimony, since we cannot
know them by our own, and we credit the persons to whom the objects
have been or are sensibly present. Accordingly, as in the case of
visible objects which we have not seen, we trust those who have,
(and likewise with all sensible objects,) so in the case of things
which are perceived452
| 452 Another derivation,
sententia from sensus, the inward perception of the
mind. | by the mind and spirit,
i.e., which are remote from our own interior sense, it behoves
us to trust those who have seen them set in that incorporeal light,
or abidingly contemplate them.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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