The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 49

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Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.

1904.]

nothing at our disposal save incorrect manuscripts. Again, the

number

New

of books belonging to the

been absolutely and

Reformation heated

infallibly fixed

And,

dinary layman can have,

bility is

ever attached.

in the

in the third place,

which translation the

now with

If

days of the

the canonicity

what the or-

never more than a translation of

is

the original, to none of

even

were waged about

conflicts

of more than one book.

;

Testament has never

seal of infalli-

regard to the Scripture

the church occupied the deistical viewpoint, that, after having

Holy

created the word, the self, all

Spirit

abandoned that

the benefit of the inspiration

But

seeking souls.

this

is

form of deism, the church

would be

not the case.

Reformed churches

to

it-

God-

Despising every

interprets the relation of the

Spirit to the Scripture in the sense of a rich

theism, and the

Word lost to

Holy

and quickening

especially, in this also sur-

passing the Lutheran sister-church, have ever maintained that the

Word by

never amounts to anything, and never pro-

itself

duces power other than as the instrument of the Holy Spirit,

and hence, Spirit.

in all ages,

Her

has never been abandoned of that Holy

confession

is,

that by revelation the

Holy

Spirit

has prepared the material out of which the garment of the

When

that material

was pre-

Spirit has inspired the individual

pieces of

Scripture should be woven. pared, the

Holy

After that, through the agency

Scripture in successive times.

Holy

of the church, the

Spirit has gathered the books

had been so prepared and

finished.

The Holy which that Spirit

Spirit

has

through the

ever

no

has

Word was

to

less

come

afterward

official

Furthermore, the Spirit

Word which

has watched over the text of the

irradiated

he had inspired.

the translations

to the nations.

himself

unto

life.

interpreted that

And

in

That same Holy

preaching, and has mingled

in those that are called

which

it

Word

with faith

with no one of God's

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