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" Thus saitli tlie Lord, the God of Israel : Write
thee all the words that I have spoken to thee in a
book." *

"And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great
book, and write in it with a man's pen." f

"I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one
that spoke. And He said to me : Son of man, stand
upon thy feet, and I will speak to thee. % And the
Spirit entered into me, and after that He ^poke to
me."

Thus St. Peter addresses the apostles: "Men,
brethren, the Scripture must needs be fulfilled which
the Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of
David." §

So our Lord speaks to the Jews: "Search the
Scriptures, for you think in them to have life ever-
lasting ; and the same are they that give testimony of
me." I

To the same effect are the words of St. Peter and St.
Paul : " Prophecy came not by the will of man at any
time ; but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the
Holy Ghost." t

"All Scripture inspired by God is profitable to
teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice." **

* Jeremias xxx. 3. \ Isaias viii. 1. | Bzechiel ii. 1, 2.
§ Acts i. 16. II St. John v. 39. IT 2 St. Peter, i. 31.
•* 2 St. Timothy iii. 16.
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