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102 Through all the words of Sacred
Scripture, God speaks Only 2763 one
single Word, his one Utterance in whom he expresses himself
6j completely:6~
You recall that one and the same Word of God extends
throughout Scripture, that it is one
and the same Utterance that resounds in the mouths of
all the sacred writers, since he who was in the beginning
God with God has no need of separate syllables; for he
is not subject to time.6~ 103 For
this reason, the Church has always venerated the Scrip
iioo, 1184 tures as she venerates the Lords
Body. She never ceases to present 1378 to the faithful
the bread of life, taken from the one table of Gods
Word and Christs Body.66 104
In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her
nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as
a human word, but as what it really is, the word of
God.6~ In the sacred books, the Father who is in
heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with
them.68 II. Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture
105 God is the auth~or of Sacred Scripture.
The divinely revealed realities,
which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred
Scripture, have been written down under the
inspiration of the Holy
Spirit.6~ For Holy Mother
Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts
as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New
Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the
grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed
on as such to the Church herself.7°
ioó God inspired the human authors of the sacred
books. To compose the sacred books, God chose certain
men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made
full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though
he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that
they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no
more.7 107 The inspired
books teach the truth. Since therefore all that the
inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded
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