constructed by the disciples, in the same kind of spirit in which he might look upon the actual hand of the Lord himself, which he bore in that body, which was made his own, were he to see it engaged in the act of writing.8 Many other similar citations could be gleaned from Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, and others. Unfortunately, the terms “unity of Scripture” and “unity of the Bible” as such were not usually part of the vocabulary of the early church, the era that immediately followed these early