[332] That θεόπνευστος is the predicate, seems sufficiently obvious. So Athanasius, in the passage above quoted. So Gregory of Nyssa: διὰ τοῦτο πᾶσα γραφὴ θεόπνευστος λέγεται, διὰ τὸ τῆς θείας ἐμπνεύσεως εἶναι διδασκαλίαν. (_Contr. Eunom._ Orat. VI. ii. 605.) Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium, quotes the place in the same way.--Basil also, saying--Πᾶσα γραφὴ θεόπνευστος καὶ ὠφέλιμος, διὰ τοῦτο συγγραφεῖσα παρὰ τοῦ Πνεύματος, (_Hom. in Psalm._ I. i. 90,)--clearly adopts the construction assumed in the text.--Ambrose (_De Spir. Sancto_, lib. II. c. 16. ii. 688,) says,--"In Scriptura Divina, θεόπνευστος omnis ex hoc dicitur, quod Deus inspiret quæ locutus est Spiritus." (The above are from Lee _on Inspiration_, which see, pp. 260, 493, 599.)--Tertullian (quoted by Tisch.) says, "Legimus omnem Scripturam ædificationi habilem, divinitus inspirari."--A few modern scholars have suggested that θέοπν. may be an epithet, not a predicate. The _doctrine_ will remain the same either way; for the meaning of the place can only be, "Every Scripture, _being_ inspired, is also _profitable_," &c. This is Origen's view: but his criticism is not in point, inasmuch as he read the text differently, (omitting the καί.) Lee aptly compares the construction of πᾶν κτίσμα Θεοῦ καλὸν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἀπόβλητον. (1 Tim. iv. 4.) [333] Thess. ii. 13. [334] 1 Cor. ii. 13. [335] 2 St. Pet. iii. 16,--where see Wordsworth. [336] 1 Cor. vii. 40. [337] 1 Cor. vii. 10. [338] 1 Cor. vii. 6. (Τοῦτο δὲ λέγω κατὰ συγγνώμην, οὐ κατ' ἐπιταγήν.) [339] St. Matth. xix. 6 (= St. Mark x. 9:) and the following places,--St. Matth. v. 32: xix. 9 ( St. Mark x. 11, 12.): St. Luke xvi. 18. [340] Montfaucon, _præf. ad Euseb. Comm. in Psalm._, cap. x. See also Æsch. Prom. V. v. 289. [341] St. Luke xvii. 9. So St. Mark x. 42. St. Luke viii. 18. St. John v. 39. [342] Comp. 1 Cor. iv. 9: Gal. ii. 9: Heb. iv. 1. [343] Τὸ ἐν αὐτοῖς Πνεῦμα Χριστοῦ.--1 St. Pet. i. 11. [344] ὑπὸ Πνεύματος Ἁγίου φερόμενοι ἐλάλησαν οἱ ἅγιοι Θεοῦ ἄνθρωποι.--2 St. Pet. i. 21. (_lit._ "impelled,"--like a ship before the wind.) [345] προεῖπε τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον διὰ στόματος Δαβὶδ.--Acts i. 16. [346] καθὼς λέγει τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον.--Heb. iii. 7. [347] ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ.--Heb. v. 10. [348] Δαβὶδ εἶπεν ἐν τῷ Πνεύματι τῷ Ἁγίῳ.--St. Mark xii. 36. [349] ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ποιήσας τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτοῖς, ὁ διὰ στόματος Δαβὶδ τοῦ παιδός σου εἰπών.--Acts iv. 24, 25. [350] τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον ἐλάλησε διὰ Ἡσαΐου τοῦ προφήτου.--Acts xxviii. 25. [351] μαρτυρεῖ δὲ ἡμῖν καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον--Heb. x. 15, quoting Jer. xxxi. 33, 34. [352] ὁ δὲ Θεὸς ... προκατήγγειλε διὰ στόματος πάντων τῶν προφητῶν αὐτοῦ παθεῖν τὸν Χριστὸν.--Acts iii. 18. [353] Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ... ἐλάλησε διὰ στόματος τῶν ἁγίων τῶν ἀπ' αἰῶνος προφητῶν αὐτοῦ.--St. Luke i. 68, 70. [354] τοῦτο δηλοῦντος τοῦ Πνεύματος τοῦ Ἁγίου.--Heb. ix. 8. [355] οὐ γάρ ἐστε ὑμεῖς οἱ λαλοῦντες, ἀλλὰ τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον.--St. Mark xiii. 11.