Book Title: Jainism Christianity and Science Author(s): Champat Rai Jain Publisher: The Indian Press AllahabadPage 87
________________ THE TRUE TEACHERS 75 knowledge; but foreknowledge affords knowledge to the ignorant.”(Clementine Homilies) A.N.C.L. vol. xvii. p. 36. "... But He 18 a true Prophet, who always knows all things, and even the thoughts of all men, who is without sin, as being convinced respecting the judgment of God. Wherefore we onght not Bimply to consider respecting His foreknowledge, but whether His foreknowledge can stand, apart from other cause. For physicians predict certain things, having the pulse of the patient as matter submitted to them; and some predict by means of having fowls, and bome by having sacrifices, and others by having many various matters submitted to them; yet these are not prophets."-(Clementine Homi. lies) A.N.C.L. vol. xvii. p. 61. "... But the foreknowledge of the one true Prophet does not only know things present, but stretches out prophecy without limit as far as the world to come, and needs nothing for its interpretation, not prophecying darkly and ambiguously, so that the things spoken would need another propbet for the interpretation of them; but clearly and simply, 28 oor Master and Prophet, by the inborn and ever-flowing Spirit, always knew all things."-(Clementine Homilies) A.N.C.L. vol. xvii. pp. 61-62. "Peter arobe saying : ... 'But do not speak anything which is your own, and which bas not been committed to you, though it may seem to yourselves to be true; but hold forth those things, as I have said, which I myself have received from the true Prophet, and have delivered to you, although they may seem to be less full of author. ity.' "-(Recognitions of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iii. p. 382. " Appeal, in discussion of heresy, lies not to the Scriptures. The Scriptures in fact belong only to those who believe, or have the Rule of Faith ... Our appeal, therefore, must not be made to the Scrip. tures; nor must controversy be admitted on points in which victory will either be impossible, or uncertain, or not certain enough."(Tertullian) A.N.C.L. vol. xv. pp. 21-22. The Christian Scriptures, being couched in the mystic language of allegory, could not be appealed to in the case of a disputation where nothing but plain language and scientific thought are requisite and of value. It may be pointed out that the ban on individualPage Navigation
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