“Sacred Scripture … is placed high on a throne”: Augustine on the Bible
Augustine, like other Patristic authors, believed without hesitation that God had caused the Bible to be written. He accepted both its inspiration and its inerrancy. He thus used such terms as inspirare and dictare to stress that in the writing of Scripture the initiative is God’s alone and that he determined what was to be written in the pages of Holy Writ. Augustine also consistently used the ablative case when referring to the work of the Holy Spirit in writing Scripture and the preposition per when referring to the role of the biblical authors. By this means he made...