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God’s revealed Word in Sacred Scripture means interpreting the gospel message in the same Spirit in which it was first transmitted by Christ himself to the Apostles, preached by them to the first Christian generation and then written by the evangelists under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.8

This process, which developed during the whole life of the Apostles, permitted a much deeper understanding of Jesus’ teaching, then reducing it to a synthesis and adapting it to their respective audiences and readers. In God’s wisdom, this has let us appreciate the immense richness of the gospel message and share in the historical reality of the life of Christ.

An alert reader of the Gospels will know how to understand them in the light of authentic Christian traditions.9 On the contrary, when reflection on the Gospel is only personal and not based on the foundation of consistent Christian tradition, the Bible is filtered through an unhealthy mentality and is no longer the soul of any healthy spiritual teaching. In the same way, when any form of teaching or meditation fails to interpret Scripture in the light of the Church’s long spiritual tradition, it has no solid foundation.

8 See DV 7: “Christ the Lord in whom the full revelation of the supreme God is brought to completion, commissioned the Apostles to preach to all men that Gospel which is the source of all saving truth and moral teaching…. This commission was faithfully fulfilled by the Apostles who, by their oral preaching, by example, and by observances handed on what they had received from the lips of Christ, from living with Him, and from what He did, or what they had learned through the prompting of the Holy Spirit. The commission was fulfilled, too, by those Apostles and apostolic men who under the inspiration of the same Holy Spirit committed the message of salvation to writing”

9 See DV 8: “This tradition which comes from the Apostles develops in the Church with the help of the Holy Spirit. (5) For there is a growth in the understanding of the realities and the words which have been handed down. This happens through the contemplation and study made by believers, who treasure these things in their hearts (see Luke, 2:19, 51) through a penetrating understanding of the spiritual realities which they experience, and through the preaching of those who have received through episcopal succession the sure gift of truth.”.