. . . Scotus
correctly claims that John said this not about the Book of Revelation alone, but
about Scripture in its entirety. With these words, therefore, he forbids not
only the corruption of the Book of Revelation (and because of their homogeneous
nature with it, the rest of the books of the Bible as well) but also the addition
of new Scriptures and of new dogmas made by men other than holy men of God,
writing and speaking at the immediate impulse of the Holy Spirit. Whoever proposes
dogmas as apostolic that do not appear in the apostolic books, that one
corrupts apostolic teaching is no less than he who attributes to the apostles
false and spurious books or who corrupts the apostolic Scriptures. (Johann Gerhard,
On the Nature of Theology and on Scripture [trans. Richard J. Dinda; Saint
Louis, Miss.: Concordia Publishing House, 2009], 334)
