Sunday, December 10, 2023

Johann Gerhard (Lutheran [1625]) on "the Word of God"

  

From the rule of logic: “An accident does not change the essence of a thing.” It is an accident [accidit] to God’s Word whether it is enunciated or orally or consigned to writing. It is one and the same Word of God, whether we become familiar with it by oral or written means, . . . (Johann Gerhard, On the Nature of Theology and on Scripture [trans. Richard J. Dinda; Saint Louis, Miss.: Concordia Publishing House, 2009], 38)

 

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