Exception to the passage Revelation 22:18.
Exception to the passage Revelation 22:18.
§ 375. They make the following exception to Rev. 22:18: “Here John is forbidding the corrupting of this book, not that others not be written nor other dogmas be taught. Otherwise he would have been militating against himself, for he wrote his Gospel after Revelation.” We respond. In the prologue to Sent., quaest. 3, art. 3, Scotus correctly claims that John said this not about his Book of Revelation alone but about Scripture in its entirety. With these words, therefore, he forbids not only the corruption of the Book of Revelation (and because of their homogeneous nature with it, the rest of the books of the Bible as well) but also the addition of new Scriptures and of new dogmas made by men other than holy men of God, writing and speaking at the immediate impulse of the Holy Spirit. Whoever proposes dogmas as apostolic that do not appear in the apostolic books, that one corrupts apostolic teaching no less than he who attributes to the apostles false and spurious books or who corrupts the apostolic Scriptures.
** Tertullian, Adv. Hermog.: “Let the workshop of Hermogenes teach that it is written. If it is not written, let him be afraid of the woe destined to those who add or take away!” **