I Thessalonians 5:16-18

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It is the mark of slaves and the unlearned to do everything by written prescription. Let this written law, then, by which absolutely everything, even the smallest details, is determined in advance, belong to the Jews; but let the sons, now perfect men, called into the freedom of grace, have the law engraved in their hearts. Wherefore those who confine the Gospel entirely within letters and parchment, leaving nothing to its spoken word, nothing to hearts, take away much from the Gospel, both of its dignity and of its powers.

But on these matters [the perspicuity of Scripture] I have discussed much in the second book, and more still will be discussed in the seventh — not because we wish to enter into combat with the Lutherans, who fight, as the saying goes, with closed eyes like gladiators, but so that Catholics may see that, having surveyed every topic with reason and judgment, none is more certain, none more stable, none, finally, more necessary for explaining the Sacred Letters, than that in which the tradition of the Church is contained. For which reason the impudence of the Lutherans is all the more detestable, who strive to undermine and utterly destroy this topic. But that this entire question may once and for all be established here, where it properly belongs, certain foundations must be laid, which contain the very sinews and strength of theology and of faith together.

If you ever had kids, what would you do about Santa, the Easter bunny, etc?

For we must remember entirely that maxim, so often employed by the scholastics that it has become almost proverbial: that one ought not to dispute against one who denies the principles, since this is done in vain.

But if the law of Moses, which is the ministry of death, was written with such exact diligence that not one iota or one tittle of it could be passed over, then much more certainly will the Gospel of Christ, which is the ministry of spirit and life, have been written with such great care and the assisting breath of God, that not only is there no word, but not even any single letter, which was not supplied by the Divine Spirit.

according to the Antiquities of Josephus, the reason that no Greek poet or historian deigned to discuss the legislation of the Jews is because when Theopompus of Chios tried to write on them in the manner of the Greek rhetoricians and was afflicted by God with “mental disturbance” for 30 days until he repented

For there are some who, since the ancient version of the New Testament is rather lacking in elegance and polish, would very much like it removed, and some more "Latin" version put in its place. They wish, it seems, to paint the wisdom of God with the colors of rhetorical art, and to adorn it, as if it were a young girl, with the little flowers of the rhetoricians. But that wisdom, being modest, does not seek ornament; being grave, it knows no cosmetic; being manly, it is not captivated by feminine adornment. "Without trappings,” says someone, "is everything that genuine affection dictates." Love, then, knows no trappings. "The ornaments of eloquence,” says another, "belong not to the business of action, but to leisure; nor are painted words the work of war, but of repose." Therefore, that which sounds the battle-cry, which exalts its voice like a trumpet, which thunders death upon the charging enemy, sounds something rough and barbaric, I know not what, not like a song played sweetly and melodiously on a lyre or cithara. What happened to Theopompus, who toyed with Sacred Scripture in the manner of the rhetoricians, has been handed down to memory.