For we admit freely that it is the Church’s duty to guard Holy Scripture, to preserve its integrity with all reverence and care, to vindicate it from people’s corrupting influence, to exhibit and prove its divine quality to others, whence it is called, “the pillar and bulwark of the truth,” by Paul in 1 Tim 3 [:15]. Be that as it may, from this no authority over Scripture should be drawn for the Church, but only service and proclamation, just as the edicts of leading civic officials do not get their authority from the heralds and servants, even though by these men they are made known and published.

Synopsis of a Purer Theology, Vol. 1, 16.

Even though the Old and New Testaments differ with respect to some of the tools whereby the teachings are administered (and also their circumstances), yet they agree as far as the substance is concerned. And the same Theology is advanced in both Testaments: God’s single will to redeem the human race and the one basic promise that salvation must be obtained through Christ (Gen 3:15 and 22:18; Acts 15:11, and 10:43, etc.).

Synopsis of a Purer Theology, Vol. 1, 7.

God is the chief efficient cause of Theology . . .

The instrumental cause of Theology is the Word of God, spoken through the mouth of men divinely inspired and called directly by God, and recorded in the holy books (1 Pet 1:12, 2 Pet 1:21, Acts 20:27, 1 Thess 2:13 and 4:8).

Synopsis of a Purer Theology, Vol. 1, 4-5.

The institution of the Supper later gave a visible clue that enables Christians to grasp the fuller meaning of Jesus’ “hard saying”(Jn. 6:60) about eating His flesh and drinking His blood.

“Lord’s Supper (Eucharist)” in ISBE, Vol. 3, 166.

In 1 Cor. 10 Paul refers to Israel’s being saved, revived, and nourished by miracles corresponding to the NT sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Paul asserts that Christ’s presence in OT Israel was so real, and the spiritual blessing He bestowed to His people was so closely bound up with the miraculous physical help He gave them, that He could actually be identified with one of the objects He used in mediating His blessing to them — “that Rock was Christ”(v.4).

“Lord’s Supper (Eucharist)” by R. S. Wallace in ISBE, Vol. 3, 165.

That the apostolic preaching is nothing other than the various predictions made by the prophets, proclaimed as having been realized in Jesus Christ, means that, on the one hand, the apostolic preaching is both the key to understanding the Old Testament and the confirmation of its fulfillment, while, on the other hand, it is the Old Testament which shapes the whole of the Christian revelation itself.

ST IRENAEUS OF LYONS, ON THE APOSTOLIC PREACHING, TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BEHR, 13.

Jesus Christ, His passion and resurrection is, for Ignatius, the only complete revelation of God; this alone is salvific. Hence it is only through this door, Jesus Christ, that the prophets, apostles, and the whole Church enter to the Father.

St Irenaeus of Lyons, On the Apostolic Preaching, translated with an Introduction by John Behr, 11.

No one whose profession of faith is merely a matter of words should deceive himself by thinking that such a faith is able to save.

CORNELIS P. VENEMA, THE GOSPEL OF FREE ACCEPTANCE IN CHRIST: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE REFORMATION AND NEW PERSPECTIVE ON PAUL, 68.

One of the best ways to interpret an argument is to discover the issue being addressed.

CORNELIS P. VENEMA, THE GOSPEL OF FREE ACCEPTANCE IN CHRIST: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE REFORMATION AND NEW PERSPECTIVE ON Paul, 67.

What undergirds the doctrine of justification is an emphasis upon God’s grace and mercy in Christ. Consequently, the doctrine of free justification is an instance of obedience to the first commandment, which requires that we let God be the God who freely justifies believers in Christ.

CORNELIS P. VENEMA, THE GOSPEL OF FREE ACCEPTANCE IN CHRIST: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE REFORMATION AND NEW PERSPECTIVE ON PAUL, 39.