Re: The Early Christians: Creed, Confession and Scripture

Megan R. wrote:

> However, when you find the words of the prophets put into the mouth of
> a person, you must not consider them as spoken by Spirit-filled
> persons, but by the divine Word [Logos] moving in them. Sometimes he
> proclaims the future events in the manner of a prediction, sometimes
> he speaks in the person of God the Lord and the Father of all things,
> sometimes in the person of Christ, and at other times from the mouth
> of the peoples themselves, replying to the Lord or to his father.
> 
> Justin, First Apology 36.
> 


To give you an illustration of this, the following words were spoken in
the 
name of the Father through the prophet Isaiah, "What kind of house will
you 
build for me? says the Lord. Heaven is my throne and the earth is my 
footstool." And again elsewhere:

My soul hates your new moons and sabbaths; I cannot endure the great day
of 
fasting and idleness any longer; nor when you appear before me will I 
listen to you. Your hands are full of blood. And when you bring me wheat 
flour and incense it is an abomination to me. Fat of lambs and blood of 
oxen I desire not. For who has demanded this from your hands? But loose 
every bond of injustice, tear apart the knots of forced contracts, shelter

the homeless and clothe the naked, break bread with the hungry!

You can understand from this what truths were pronounced by the prophets
in 
the name of God.	

Justin, First Apology 37.