The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 50
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Day.
Biblical Criticism of the Present
elect has the
Holy
Spirit rested, until the
Word,
[Oct. infallibly in-
spired centuries ago, bare fruit equally infallible in that soul, as
though
it
The Holy as tides
had been inspired
for the sake of that soul alone.
Spirit effects this purpose in
humana and
tides divina
Fides humana which ceeding from God,
is
two ways; which
must sharply be distinguished.
and therefore equally surely pro-
fides,
the reliance which the church places in
is
work by means of
the authority of the Spirit's
the organism
of the church, which aims at the canon, the determining of the
and the exegesis of the books.
text, the translation
Concern-
ing each of these, therefore, a brief word.
What books form certain as
it
is
human
belong to a normal ism.
the canon,
is
to the anatomist,
it
unquestionably
itself as
The
body.
Nothing can be added to
by
what members do or do not Scripture
or taken
an organ-
is
away from
complete in the fullness of numbers and entirety of
The
question, however, whether at each given
church
is
It is
it.
its
parts.
moment
in the possession of the anatomical tact
which
the is
necessary with a firm hand to decide upon each part of the Scripture, or each book that
is
waters of spiritual
volume or
life in
contract.
confidence of the
fluctuates as the
the midst of the churches swell in
But so
laity,
presented with this claim, must
That certainty
be answered in the negative.
the
far
from lessening thereby the
Holy
Spirit has so disposed the
parts of Scripture, that those
on which the
life
depends have
never been doubted, and in the books that have never been
doubted the stream of truth flows sequently the
Holy
in all its fullness
;
and sub-
Spirit has directed also this canonical
work
with so firm a hand, that the generous recognition of by far the most books astonishes us far
more than
the continuous
doubt expressed concerning a very few.
With
respect to the text of the Sacred Scripture, the
same
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van vrijdag 1 januari 1904
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van vrijdag 1 januari 1904
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's