Absolutely speaking, God can give Scripture knowledge without human ministry; Galatians 1
So the question is whether the Church's voice and testimony is needed to gain this knowledge. Briefly: absolutely speaking, no human labor is required for it. God can immediately, without anyone's outward ministry, give someone knowledge of Scripture and of his Word, and impress sure faith about it.
So Paul had not received the Gospel from a man, nor been taught it; he received it through the revelation of Jesus Christ, as he himself testifies (Galatians 1). So the other Apostles were led by the Spirit Paraclete into all truth with no man going before. So of old the Prophets learned from the Holy Spirit alone, who inspired them, what they spoke.
Latin
XVI. Quaeritur ergo, Num ad hanc notitiam adipiscendam opus sit Ecclesiae voce et testimonio. Breviter respondemus, absolute loquendo, ad hoc non esse necessariam ullius hominis operam. Siquidem Deus potest immediate, et absque cujusquam externo ministerio, alicui, Scripturae et verbi sui cognitionem dare, et certam de eo fidem imprimere. Ita Paulus Evangelium ab homine non acceperat, neque edoctus erat, sed per revelationem Jesu Christi, sicut testatur ipse Galat. 1. Sic reliqui Apostoli a Spiritu Paracleto ducti fuerunt in omnem veritatem, homine nullo praeeunte. Sic denique olim Prophetae a solo Spiritu sancto, qui eos inspirabat, didicerunt quae proloquebantur.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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