Immediately after he writes, as having no such assurance:

"To the rest speak I, not the Lord."[3]

Later on in the same letter he is so uncertain as to add to his judgment:

"And I think also that I have the spirit of God."[4]

Again, in the same connection, being conscious of no divine authorization,
he gives his own opinion as such:

"Now, concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord, but I give
my judgment."[5]

Eighteen hundred years after he wrote, men insist that they know more
about St. Paul's inspirations than he did himself. Against his modest,
cautious discriminations, our doctors set up their theory of the Bible,
clothe all his utterances with the divine authority, and honor him with an
infallibility which he explicitly disclaims.

The New Testament writers use language which seems, to our
theory-spectacled eyes, to ascribe an infallible inspiration to the Old
Testament books. But the words have no such weight. The Epistle to the
Hebrews opens with the words:

"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto
the fathers by the prophets," etc.[6]

The author of the Second Epistle of Peter writes: