Pause of Revelation
If [continual Word revelation] was otherwise at any time, it was after the death of the patriarchs, before the call of Moses, during which time all things went into darkness and confusion; for oral tradition alone would not preserve the truth of former revelations. But by whomsoever these instructions were received, they had a sufficient outward means for their illumination, before any divine revelations were recorded by writing.
John Owen, The Reasons of Faith, The Works of John Owen, ed. William H. Goold, vol. 4 (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1677), 10.