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Majesty in Meekness:
The Peculiar Glory in Jesus Christ
In the preceding chapter, we saw that the answer of the Westminster
Larger Catechism touched on something profound. When asked, “How
doth it appear that the Scriptures are the word of God?” it answers,
“The Scriptures manifest themselves to be the word of God, by . . . the
scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God.” Among all the evidences
for the divine origin of Scripture that the catechism mentions, 1
this part of the answer is crucial in the argument we are pursuing. The
catechism is saying, as we saw, that the whole Bible, properly understood,
has this divine purpose—to communicate or display the glory of
God. And this pervasive aim of the Scriptures to glorify God, in what
they teach and how they teach it, reveals the handiwork of God in the
writing of the Bible.
The Self-Attesting Scripture, Gospel, and Universe
We know we are onto something profound here, not only because this
links the self-attestation of Scripture with the self-attestation of the
whole creation (Rom. 1:18–21, the theme of chapter 12), but also because
it links the self-attestation of Scripture with the self-attestation
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See chap. 12n3 for the catechism’s whole answer.