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25 May 2020

Speaking The Word Of God



Si quis loquitur quasi sermones Dei...
 

Timens videlicet, ne praeter voluntatem Dei, vel praeter quod in Scripturis sanctis evidenter praecipitur, vel dicat aliquid vel imperet, et inveniatur tanquam falsus testis Dei, aut sacrilegus, vel introducens aliquid alienum a doctrina Domini, vel certe subrelinquens et praeteriens aliquid eorum quae Deo placita sunt, cum ipse manifestissime praedictoribus veritatis de his quos ad vitam imbuerint praecipiat, dicens: Docentes eos servare omnia quaecunque mandavi vobis. Et ea enim quae ipse mandavit, nos alia, et haec non ex parte, sed omnia suis auditoribus observanda tradere.

Sancta Beda, In Primam Epistolam Sancti Petri, Caput IV

Source: Migne PL 93.63a-b
If someone should speak as if the words of God... 1

Fearing certainly, lest someone either speaks or commands outside the will of God, or outside what is evidently commanded in Sacred Scripture, and it is revealed as a false testimony of God, either sacrilegious or introducing some strange thing into the teaching of the Lord, or obscuring or omitting something of it which is pleasing to God, when He, the Truth, has most manifestly taught preachers that they should instill these things for the sake of life, saying, 'Teaching them to guard all these things which I have commanded you.' 2 And the things which He has commanded, we must be sure to give to others who hear, all of it and not just a part.


Saint Bede, Commentary on the First Letter of Peter, Chap 4

1 1 Pet 4.11
2 Mt 28.20

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