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Biblical Criticism of the Present
676
passages of
out the
each other, in their
Hence ology a
even though
it
be covered, harmony.
the need of loci paralleli, not after the style of the de-
parted supranaturalists, !
[Oct.
sound contradictory to
Scripture that
real,
Day.
—
ah, they, indeed,
had no more the-
and Voetiuses
no, but in the spirit of the Juniuses
spiritual,
amateur
—
no narrow-minded Harmonistica
effort,
not a pitiful
;
but a logical interpretation of our sense of
representation by paying attention to the 7roVe; 7rw?; vtto tivo?]
and Kara 4.
If,
rfc.
then, there
interpretum, in the that implies
even then
I
still
remain seeming inexplicables,
Holy
nothing,
Scripture, before
—but
which not
critces I,
—for
confessing theologians stand,
all
do not hesitate a moment to say
it
in the hearing
of the whole scientific world, that, facing the choice between
leaving this question unanswered, and with the simple-minded
people of
God
ethical brethren
confessing
from
of the Scripture,
bility
my
ignorance, or with the learned
scientific logicalness rejecting the infalliI
firmly choose the
whole soul shrink back from the
and with
first,
my
last.
For, to say with Rothe and his followers, that there are
myths tasy
;
in the Scripture; the creation-narrative is pious
phantasy likewise the narrative of the
fall
;
phan-
the prophecies
are products of a higher-tensioned spiritual life;
the testi-
monies borne by Christ and his apostles concerning the Old
Covenant are devoid of normative power; the apostolic representation of the truth
is
equally
little
normative and bind-
ing even the image of the Christ which they outline and paint ;
is
not fixedly reliable; and then solemnly to declare that the
whole Scripture from Gen. of God,
is
more than
wonderfully
much
hear, but of
which
I
i.
1 to
can do;
Rev. xxii. 21
it is
is
too bold for
their
me;
like a protestatio actui contraria, I
have no understanding.
it
Word looks
which
I
And when, more-
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Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's