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Traces early influences, including preaching and legends, then highlights key scriptural references in the Spiritual Exercises, where Gospel chapters and verses dominate yet are accompanied by traditions and non-explicit assumptions. Also considers Ignatius’s letters and the Jesuit Constitutions’ emphasis on studying Scripture to serve spiritual formation.","# Saint Ignatius and the Bible\n\nJohn W.Padberg,SJThe Institute of Jesuit SourcesAugust 12,1996  \nWe all read and understand and use the Bible in the light of our personal experiences and inthe context of the society in which we live.St.Ignatius did the same.His experiences were particularto him as ours are to us,and sixteenth century Spain and France and Rome provided a far differentcontext than twentieth century America.On the one hand,we have today far more detailedknowledge of the text of Scripture and of the contexts in which its various parts were written than anyone in the time of Ignatius had.On the other hand,stories of the life of Jesus were woven into thefabric of daily life in his time,just as were stories of the saints,with an immediacy that we can noteasily imagine.The loom on which those stories were woven was the church,and the church,too,occupied a place in the day-to-day lives of people far more pervasively than we can imagine.  \nWe do not know when Ignatius first read the Old or New Testament.We do know,however,that if he read it in his early years,he could not have done so in Spanish.Because of the Inquisition'sprohibitions,the first printed Catholic Spanish translation of the whole New Testament was onlypublished in 1793.In addition,whatever knowledge of Latin he may have had in his early years wasso rudimentary that he could not have read the scriptures in that language.He would,of course,haveheard Scripture used in preaching in his home parish,and stories from both Old and New Testamentstold as part of the religious heritage of the time.But in all likelihood those stories would have been  \nmixed up with some of the plentiful legends that supplied more vivid details than Scripture itselfprovided for the life of our Lord,and for the actions of the great figures of the Old and NewTestament,from Adam and Eve on to the Apostles.  \nIgnatius'first biographical reference to Scripture comes in his \"Reminiscences\"(usually calledhis \"Autobiography\")where he speaks of reading the famous and immensely popular life of Christ bythe medieval Carthusian,Ludolf of Saxony,while he was convalescing at Loyola from the battlewounds he had suffered of Pamplona.Ludolph's Life of Christ drew on the Scriptures themselves,butit was also filled with centuries-old legends about the life of Jesus.  \nThe place in which best to look for the relation of Ignatius and the Bible is his writings,andamong them especially the Spiritual Exercises.It is immediately striking that in the Exercises all of thespecific chapter and verse references to Scripture are taken,with only two brief exceptions,from thefour gospels.If these were for Ignatius the most authoritative sources of knowledge of the events ofour Lord's life,they were not the only sources.Anyone familiar with the Exercises willnote that heincludes such supposed events as the \"compassion\"that Mary felt at the circumcision \"because of theblood which was flowing from her son,\"or the designation of the Magi as \"Three Kings,\"or,after theResurrection,his appearance to his mother before he appeared to anyone else.At that point Ignatiussays,almost with a hint of impatience in his voice,\"Although this is not stated in Scripture,stillit isconsidered as understood by the statement that he appeared to many others.For Scripture supposesthat we have understanding,as it is written,'Are even you without understanding?’[Matt.15:16]”Asif anyone with any sense would know that that is what a good son would do!  \nIn the first and second \"Weeks\"of the Exercises,a host of stories already traditional in theMiddle Ages intermingles with biblical details,stories such as how the angels were created,how some  \nsinned through pride and were banished to hell,how Adam was created on the plain of Damascus.In stories connected with the nativity,\"Mary [is]seated on an ass together with Joseph and a servantgirl leading an ox.\"Sixteenth century nobleman that he was,Ignatius might not have been able evento imagine Mary and","cbCaicJOIxZp1yEd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicJOIxZp1yEd","pdf",39625,"English","en",105,"# Saint Ignatius and the Bible\n## Reading Scripture in lived context\n## Early access and indirect influence\n## Autobiographical reference and devotional sources\n## Scriptural use in the Spiritual Exercises\n## Illustrative stories and traditional accounts\n## Letters and quotations from the Bible\n## Jesuit Constitutions and the study of Scripture","[{\"question\":\"How does the document describe Ignatius’s way of reading the Bible?\",\"answer\":\"It portrays Ignatius as reading Scripture in the light of personal experience and the social world around him, much as readers do in any era.\"},{\"question\":\"Where does the document say the relationship between Ignatius and the Bible should be sought?\",\"answer\":\"In Ignatius’s writings, especially the Spiritual Exercises, where specific chapter-and-verse references are largely taken from the four Gospels.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does the Jesuit Constitutions assign to studying Sacred Scripture?\",\"answer\":\"It links Scripture study with helping souls and defending the church-approved version, requiring learned preparation for preaching and teaching.\"}]","Saint Ignatius and the Bible - read and interpretive practices | PDF",1790652615,13,{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":82},"ok",{"site_id":74,"language":73,"slug":83,"title":65,"keywords":84,"description":66,"schema_data":85,"social_meta":139,"head_meta":141,"extra_data":143,"updated_unix":144},"saint-ignatius-and-the-bible-read-and-interpretive-practices","",{"@graph":86,"@context":138},[87,101,121],{"@type":88,"itemListElement":89},"BreadcrumbList",[90,94,96,99],{"item":91,"name":92,"@type":93,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":95,"name":9,"@type":93,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":97,"name":45,"@type":93,"position":98},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/religion-spirituality/",3,{"item":100,"name":65,"@type":93,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/saint-ignatius-and-the-bible-read-and-interpretive-practices/430367/",{"url":100,"name":65,"@type":102,"image":103,"author":108,"headline":65,"publisher":110,"fileFormat":113,"inLanguage":73,"description":66,"dateModified":114,"datePublished":115,"encodingFormat":113,"isAccessibleForFree":116,"interactionStatistic":117},"DigitalDocument",{"url":104,"@type":105,"width":106,"height":107},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/saint-ignatius-and-the-bible-read-and-interpretive-practices/430367.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":63,"@type":109},"Person",{"url":91,"name":111,"@type":112},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-07","2026-09-29",true,{"@type":118,"interactionType":119,"userInteractionCount":29},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":120},"ViewAction",{"@type":122,"mainEntity":123},"FAQPage",[124,130,134],{"name":125,"@type":126,"acceptedAnswer":127},"How does the document describe Ignatius’s way of reading the Bible?","Question",{"text":128,"@type":129},"It portrays Ignatius as reading Scripture in the light of personal experience and the social world around him, much as readers do in any era.","Answer",{"name":131,"@type":126,"acceptedAnswer":132},"Where does the document say the relationship between Ignatius and the Bible should be sought?",{"text":133,"@type":129},"In Ignatius’s writings, especially the Spiritual Exercises, where specific chapter-and-verse references are largely taken from the four Gospels.",{"name":135,"@type":126,"acceptedAnswer":136},"What role does the Jesuit Constitutions assign to studying Sacred Scripture?",{"text":137,"@type":129},"It links Scripture study with helping souls and defending the church-approved version, requiring learned preparation for preaching and teaching.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":100,"og:type":140,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":111,"og:description":66},"article",{"robots":142,"canonical":100},"index,follow",{"doc_id":61,"site_id":74},1790711830]