That Church-reduction exploded: distinguish God's Word itself from the things delivered in it
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But once that opinion is exploded — the one that reduces faith in God's Word and sacred Scripture to the Church's authority — we must ask what our faith finally rests on, and what its proper and principal foundation is.To make that clear, a distinction seems needed between God's Word itself, or divine revelation, and the things handed down and contained in God's Word, which become open through divine revelation.Our faith receives the mysteries delivered in God's Word in one way, and God's own voice — divine revelation — in another.
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XXIV. Verum explosa illa sententia, quae, fidem verbo Dei et Scripturae sacrae adhibitam, ad authoritatem Ecclesiae reducit, videndum quid ergo sit illud in quo tandem ultimo conquiescit fides nostra, et quod sit ejus proprium et praecipuum fundamentum. Quod ut manifestum fiat, videtur distinguendum esse inter ipsum Dei verbum, sive divinam revelationem: et illa quae Dei verbo traduntur et continentur, et per revelationem divinam patefiunt. Etenim, mysteria quae verbo Dei traduntur fides nostra aliter accipit, et aliter ipsam Dei vocem, seu divinam revelationem.