Day 19: Summary of Sacred Scripture

"All Sacred Scripture is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ" (Hugh of St. Victor...) CCC 134

Today's reading was short, another "In Brief" section summing up what I read over the last few days. Hugh of St. Victor's words, quoted in the Catechism and above, sums up our view of Scripture as Catholics. I also like this reminder in the Catechism Companion, Vol. I (p.42):

There are human authors, but there is also a divine author of Scripture. That is not a contradiction; it is a mystery.

Scripture for Christians is not like the Qur'an is for Muslims. The authors were divinely inspired in their writing, and the Scriptures are therefore inerrant, but they are not a word-for-word dictation from above. That to me is the chief difference between the two, the other of course being that Christ of the Qur'an completely contradicts Christ of the New Testament. Take an example from St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. In speaking about the Judaizers troubling the faithful, the Apostle says in verse 5:12:

Would that those who are upsetting you might also castrate themselves!

Was this snark? Anger? Meant as a joke? I don't know, but it does show the humanity of the author in writing what would become divinely inspired Scripture.

That's Day 19 done!