22 July 2008

Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

The words of Holy Scripture are efficacious, because they are the words of Him who sits upon the throne of Heaven, and always attends them with His Spirit. HIs Kingdom on earth advances by the ever progressive appropriation of the truth contained in Holy Scripture by His people. It grows in individuals, as in every perplexity and affliction, they find words of Scripture to direct and console them; and in the Church as, from age to age, it more fully appropriates the treasures that are stored up there. -- Henry E. Jacobs, *Elements of Religion* p. 137

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