A common and beautiful name for the Scriptures, which are God-breathed (2 Tim. 3:16,) and described as proceeding out of God’s mouth (Matt. 4:4). Christ is the living Word of God (1 John 1), of whom all the written Word speaks. He who would understand the written Word must know the living Word, and he that would know the living Word must study the written Word. The two go together, and the only way to avoid error is to hold fast both.