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of the Gospel rings out in the Church
and through her in the world leads
believers to the full truth, and makes the Word of Christ
dwell in them in all its richness.39 II. The Relationship between Tradition and Sacred
Scripture One common source... 8o Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then,
are bound closely together, and communicate one with the
other. For both of them, flowing out from the same divine
well-spring, come together in some fashion to form one
thing, and move towards the same goal.4° Each of
them makes present and fruitful in the Church the mystery of
Christ, who promised to remain with his
own always, to the close of the age.4
two distinct modes of transmission 8i Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as
it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy
Spirit.42 And
[Holy] Tradition transmits in its entirety the
Word of 113 God which has been entrusted to the apostles
by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. It transmits it
to the successors of the apostles so that, enlightened
by the Spirit of truth, they may faithfully preserve,
expound and spread it abroad by their preaching.43
82 As a result the Church, to whom the
transmission and inter pretation of Revelation is
entrusted, does not derive her certainty about all
revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both
Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honoured with
equal sentiments of devotion and reverence.44 Apostolic Tradition and ecciesial traditions
~ they received fromJesus teaching
and example and what they learned from the
:~ Spirit. The first generation of Christians did not
yet have a written New restament, and
the New Testament itself demonstrates the process of
living radition.
[ Tradition is to be distinguished from the
various theological, disciplinary, 2041, pargical or
devotional traditions, born in the local churches over time.
These 1203, - ~e particular
forms, adapted to different places and times, in which the
great ion is expressed. In the light of Tradition,
these traditions can be retained,
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