An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith 90

1 BOOK IV — CHAPTER 17: Concerning Scripture.

2 It is one and the same God Whom both the Old and the New Testament proclaim, Who is praised and glorified in the Trinity. For He Himself worked out our salvation for which all Scripture and all mystery exists. Through the Holy Spirit, therefore, both the law and the prophets, the evangelists and apostles and pastors and teachers, spoke.

3 All Scripture, then, is given by inspiration of God and is also assuredly profitable. Wherefore to search the Scriptures is a work most fair and most profitable for souls. For through the Holy Scriptures we are trained to action that is pleasing to God, and untroubled contemplation. For in these we find both exhortation to every virtue and dissuasion from every vice. Wherefore let us knock at that very fair garden of the Scriptures, so fragrant and sweet and blooming: for the Scriptures possess inexhaustible grace.