The Word Received

The Apostle then distinguishes between revelation, inspiration, and the inspired Word being received by the hearer. God's servants of old (1 Peter 1:11,12), had not always full understanding of that which they set forth, but Paul tells us that the person in Christian times was the intelligent communicator of that which he had received, and authoritatively set forth.
How marvelously all this witnesses to God's real desire for His intelligent creature man to become acquainted with the divine communications. God has taken great pains that His mind should be correctly made known, but His mind cannot be apprehended by mere human intellect. "The natural man receiveth [understandeth] not the things of the Spirit of God... neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Cor. 2:14.
Bible Witness and Review

The Bible
My Book! my Book! my grand old Book! by inspiration
given!
There every page from age to age, reveals the path to
heaven;
My Lamp of Light! in nature's night, thy unbeclouded ray
Has turned the gloom of death's cold tomb to everlasting
day.
My Chart! my Chart! my changeless Chart! by thee I guide
my bark,
A simple child on ocean wild, o'er mountain billows dark;
By thee I steer my safe career, with canvas all unfurled,
And onward sail before the gale, to yonder blissful world.
My Staff! my Staff! my trusty Staff! I'll grasp thee in my
hand,
As faint and weak on Pisgah's peak, I view the promised
land;
Not sadly told, as one of old, to see—but to explore,
My hold I'll keep through Jordan's deep till safe on
Canaan's shore.
My Sword! my Sword! my two-edged Sword! by thy
unerring might,
I deal my foe the deadly blow, in faith's unequal fight;
Thy tempered blade, that lent me aid in every conflict
past,
Shall make me more than conqueror, through Him who
loved, at last.
My Book! my Chart! my Staff! my Sword! heaven speed
thee on thy way
From pole to pole, as ages roll, the harbinger of day,
Till Christ "the Light," shall banish night from this
terrestrial ball,
And earth shall see her Jubilee, and God be all in all.
(Author unknown)