made not to a personal statement recorded in Scripture but to an utterance of God, which the writer was commissioned to transmit as such. In a number of passages both the divine and the human authorship appear side by side. “… which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet …” (Matt. 1:22). “David himself said in the Holy Spirit” (Mark 12:36; cf. Matt. 22:43). “… the Holy Spirit spake before by the mouth of David” (Acts 1:16; cf. 4:25). “Well spake the Holy Spirit through Isaiah the prophet …” (Acts
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