Unequal radiance across the books: Esther and Ruth beside Moses, Isaiah, Paul, and the Gospels
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Besides, we must admit that the marks and signs of divinity we said belong in Scripture do not shine with equal brilliance in every book.Just as one star differs from another in light, so some books of Scripture send out richer and more splendid rays of the divine Spirit, while others send out far feebler and more obscure ones.In the Old Testament, for example, Esther and Ruth are far dimmer in divine brightness than Moses's Pentateuch and the Prophecy of Isaiah.And the vestiges of Christ's Spirit are less open in the epistles of James and Jude than in most of Paul's epistles and the four Gospels.
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XLVII. Ac praeterea fatendum est divinitatis notas et indicia, quae Scripturae inesse diximus, in singulis Scripturae libris non esse pari fulgore conspicuas. Nam quemadmodum stella luce a stella differt, ita quidam Scripturae libri uberiores et splendidiores divini Spiritus radios emittunt, alii vero longe exiliores et obscuriores. Sic ex. gr. in Veteri Testamento longe impar est divinitatis fulgor in libro Esther, aut libro Ruth, quam sit in Mosis Pentateucho, et Prophetia Isaiae. Neque tam aperta sunt spiritus Christi vestigia in epistola Jacobi, aut Judae, quam in plerisque Pauli epistolis, et quatuor Evangeliis.