{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/203/2030885.htm","path":"chr/ecf/203/2030885.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/203/2030885.htm","text":"36. \u201cThe Holy Church; The Forgiveness of Sin, the Resurrection of This Flesh.\u201d It is not said, \u201cIn the holy Church,\u201d nor \u201cIn the forgiveness of sins,\u201d nor \u201cIn the resurrection of the flesh.\u201d For if the preposition \u201cin\u201d had been added, it would have had the same force as in the preceding articles. But now in those clauses in which the faith concerning the Godhead is declared, we say \u201cIn God the Father,\u201d and \u201cIn Jesus Christ His Son,\u201d and \u201cIn the Holy Ghost,\u201d but in the rest, where we speak not of the Godhead but of creatures and mysteries, the preposition \u201cin \u201d is not added. We do not say \u201cWe believe in the holy Church,\u201d but \u201cWe believe the holy Church,\u201d not as God, but as the Church gathered together to God: and we believe that there is \u201cforgiveness of sins;\u201d we do not say \u201cWe believe in the forgiveness of sins;\u201d and we believe that there will be a \u201cResurrection of the flesh;\u201d we do not say \u201cWe believe in the resurrection of the flesh.\u201d By this monosyllabic preposition, therefore, the Creator is distinguished from the creatures, and things divine are separated from things human.\nThis then is the Holy Ghost, who in the Old Testament inspired the Law and the Prophets, in the New the Gospels and the Epistles. Whence also the Apostle says, \u201cAll Scripture given by inspiration of God is profitable for instruction.\u201d 3404 And therefore it seems proper in this place to enumerate, as we have learnt from the tradition of the Fathers, the books of the New and of the Old Testament, which, according to the tradition of our forefathers, are believed to have been inspired by the Holy Ghost, and have been handed down to the Churches of Christ.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. III: Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus.: Section 36. The Holy Church; The Forgiveness of Sin, the Resurrection of This Flesh","type":"page"}