Plenitude across ages — Scripture always held what each age needed
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From what we have already set out, it is plain enough in what sense we praise Scripture's fullness and sufficiency, and press that it contains everything necessary to faith and salvation.
We do not give that perfection only to Old and New Testament Scripture as the Apostles and apostolic men handed it down to us.From the moment God saw fit to put his word in writing, we hold that Scripture always contained all that God's people and the Church needed to worship him rightly and to reach salvation — and that they did not need to go elsewhere to draw the teaching of faith and salvation.
Latin
XXV. Porro, ex iis quae jam exposita sunt, satis manifestum est, quo sensu commendemus Scripturae plenitudinem, & sufficientiam, & inculcemus illam omnia quae sunt ad fidem & salutem necessaria continere. Istam autem perfectionem non tantum tribuimus Scripturae Veteris & Novi Testamenti, prout ab Apostolis, & viris Apostolicis nobis consignata est: sed, ex quo Deo visum est verbum suum scripto tradere, existimamus Scripturam semper continuisse omnia quae Dei populo & Ecclesiae necessaria erant ad Deum rite colendum, & salutem adipiscendam: nec opus fuisse alio recurrere ad hauriendam fidei & salutis doctrinam.