"An oracle is something spoken.
That which was emphatically spoken by the mouth of the Lord is the Ten Commandments.
Stephen, speaking of Moses receiving the law, said, "This is he,
that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the Mount Sina, and with our fathers; who received the lively oracles to give unto us." Acts 7:38.
The Ten Commandments are primarily the oracles of God, because they were uttered by his own voice in the hearing of the people.
But the Holy Scriptures as a whole are the oracles of God, since they are the word of God, spoken "in divers manners" (Heb. 1:1), and because they are but an expansion of the Ten Commandments. Christians are to shape their lives solely by the Bible. This is seen from the words of the apostle Peter: "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God."1 Peter 4:11."
E.J.Waggoner
That which was emphatically spoken by the mouth of the Lord is the Ten Commandments.
Stephen, speaking of Moses receiving the law, said, "This is he,
The Ten Commandments are primarily the oracles of God, because they were uttered by his own voice in the hearing of the people.
But the Holy Scriptures as a whole are the oracles of God, since they are the word of God, spoken "in divers manners" (Heb. 1:1), and because they are but an expansion of the Ten Commandments. Christians are to shape their lives solely by the Bible. This is seen from the words of the apostle Peter: "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God."1 Peter 4:11."
E.J.Waggoner
