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Significantly, by "the Scriptures" here and in what follows, Knox does not mean simply the New Testament but the Old Testament also. He speaks explicitly of "the documents the emerging Church either absorbed into its life or produced out of it" – -- the Old Testament being composed of documents that were "appropriated and absorbed in the emerging Church," the New Testament, of "new documents" that were written, preserved, and selected by that church (124, 125). Thus, although the contents of the Old Testament "had been virtually established within the Jewish community" before the Event occurred, "in being appropriated and absorbed in the emerging Church," this collection of writings "was placed in a new perspective, reinterpreted, and to a degree transformed. The ancient Scriptures became in one moment a new book – -- an anticipatory account of the meaning (sometimes even of the facts) of the Event itself" (124 f.).

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