In the Greek, the term "inspiration of God" used by Paul in II Tim. 3: 16 is

theopneustos, and it is evident that there is a vital connection between "inspiration" and

the Spirit (pneuma). On occasion, therefore, we are prepared to find that a specific

statement is made in the Scriptures ascribing the authorship of the Book to the

Holy Spirit. Let us note these passages.

(1) PSALM 95: 7.--This passage is quoted in Heb. 3:, but instead of settling the

vexed question as to whether Moses, who wrote Psa. 90:, should be recognized as the

author of the anonymous Psalms that follow, Paul says, "Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost

saith, To day if ye will hear His voice" (Heb. 3: 7). This statement is too explicit to be

passed over in silence. Everything associated with the integrity of Scripture is involved

in it. The critics have assured us that Moses never led the children of Israel through the

wilderness; that the story written in the book of Numbers is not factual history; Moses

never lifted up a serpent in the wilderness, etc., etc., yet Paul declares that the Psalm

which says, "Forty years long was I grieved with this generation . . . . . I sware in My

wrath, that they should not enter into My rest", was the language of "The Holy Ghost".

Here there can be no compromise, no middle ground; we must be either for or against.

Either Paul's words are sober truth and the critics blasphemers, or his words are

hysterical nonsense and the critics our deliverers. For our part we believe the Apostle's

declaration that the Psalm quoted was the language of the Holy Ghost.

(2) THE TABERNACLE.--Heb. 9: is devoted to the typical tabernacle of the

wilderness, and the anti-typical fulfillment of its ordinances, sacrifices and types in the

heavenly priesthood of Christ and the true tabernacle, which God pitched and not man,

namely, "heaven itself". Once again the issues are clearly defined. Paul does not speak

vaguely of the tabernacle; he describes its two great portions, he specifies the sacred

furniture, both within the veil and in the holy place, and in Heb. 8: 5, says of the

earthly priesthood of Israel:

Having committed himself to the belief that Moses did actually erect the tabernacle and

that the record in Exodus is true, he further commits himself to the utter extreme of

saying in Heb. 9: concerning this tabernacle and its services:--