Single Question: Whether the supernatural knowledge
necessary for the wayfarer is sufficiently handed on in Sacred Scripture.
95.
The question is asked whether the supernatural knowledge necessary for the
wayfarer is sufficiently handed on in Sacred Scripture.
That
it is not:
Because
necessary knowledge was never lacking to the human race; Sacred Scripture was
not in the law of nature, because Moses first wrote the Pentateuch, nor
was the whole of Sacred Scripture in the Mosaic law, but only the Old
Testament; therefore etc.
96.
Again, the more acute in intellect any author of human sciences is, the more he
avoids superfluity in handing them on; but in Sacred Scripture there seem to be
many superfluous things contained, as the many ceremonies and histories, knowledge
of which does not seem necessary for salvation; therefore etc.
97.
Again, there are many things about which it is not known with certitude from
Scripture whether they are sins or not; however knowledge of these things is
necessary for salvation, because he who does not know that something is a
mortal sin will not avoid it sufficiently; therefore etc.
98.
On the contrary: Augustine in City of God XI ch. 3 says, speaking
of canonical Scripture: “We have faith in it for things that it is not expedient
to be ignorant of and that we are not suited to know by ourselves.” (John Duns
Scotus, The Ordinatio of Blessed John Dun Scotus, Volume 1: On Revelation
and Theology [Militant Thomist Press, 2022], 50-51)
Further Reading:
Yves Congar on Medieval Writers and the Material Sufficiency of Scripture
Not by Scripture Alone: A Latter-day Saint Refutation of Sola Scriptura
