Jesus’s Spoken Words God’s Written Words 1 God works God works 2 by his Spirit by his Spirit 3 through Jesus through biblical writers 4 to produce spoken words to produce written words The fact of word formation by Spirit is straightforward and clear. It is also the process by which God spoke through the prophets. To cite one example, as noted earlier, David could say, “The Spirit of Yahweh spoke through me; his word was on my tongue” (2 Sam. 23:2). The parallelism of “Spirit of Yahweh” and “his
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