The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 40

— Biblical Criticism of the Present

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Thus

builder.

as a

if,

measure of

safety,

Day.

[Oct.

we apply

this princi-

ple first to another part of this science, we, as theologians, are

bound

in duty

to dismiss the free-will services in the

domain

of ethics of both Martensen, the mediating theologian, and

Van

der Goltz, the full-blooded ethical, since the one condoned and

good the

called

of the

violation of an oath,

commandment

and the other the violation

of honesty in persons of high station

[Von Bismarck was here referred

to].

these masters fall short of the seal of the

The works Holy

of both

Spirit,

and are

as such, eo ipso, refused admittance, as contraband, at the theological frontier,

where the blade of the cherub

the Spiritus Creator If

now we apply

Holy

1.

this

same standard

Scripture, the leading thought

as follows

Omnium

worshiped as

is

and

glitters,

Solus Doctor.

to the study of the

which we reach

will be

:

That every view, according

appear in the form of a

lie,

to

which what

is

holy can

and by which, under the use of the

shameful invention of the so-called " pious fraud," the Holy Spirit

made

is

own

to counteract his

deepest character, must

be rejected, as being based upon an erroneous investigation.

To

pretend, for instance, that in books which one accepts as

Holy

canonical the

Spirit

represents myths as history, and

places before us a vaticinium ex eventu in a false

prophecy,

is

to attribute absurdities to that Spirit

form

as

which are

inconsistent with his integrity. 2.

Each theory

at length

nizes

—must

—and

this will

be considered a

little

more

equally be dismissed, whose result antago-

what the Holy

Spirit asserts in the Scripture concern-

ing the Scripture.

No

one denies that the Holy Scripture comes to us with

an absolute principle. of the world

is

It asserts,

" foolishness "

;

indeed, that, that

all

only the

"

wisdom

Spirit,

"

who

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