The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 57

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Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.

have shown with logical accuracy both the encyclopedic, dog-

and

matic,

spiritual

which

ecclesiastical ruin

perpetrated, and, that

cowardice,

against this I

687

my own

did this in the

fingers over

my

vandalism has

this critical

might shun the very appearance of

I

have boldly and candidly

I

over-

set

confession respecting the Holy Scripture.

consciousness that, with no cover or

still

eyes,

looked the criticism squarely in the

I

condoned and mollified nothing; and that with an hon-

face;

est, scientific

conscience

stand immovably firm in the confes-

I

sion of the inspiration by the Spirit. this

will occasion surprise

but

why should

come

am

I

quite prepared that

with one, bitterness with another;

be denied the right to speak,

I

to this pass, that even they

who

confess the

when

it

name

of Je-

has

sus offer the incense of approbation to the most radical anatomists of the Scripture

my

age of

ter foolishness to

" the

God

the

I

this conviction

hold myself fast to

God have embraced

Power

Lord has granted me

and though

the cour-

may seem

ut-

our modern Greeks, and to our ethical Israel

a stone of offense,

people of

?

conviction,

it

it,

even as

the dear

all

these nineteen centuries, as

power given us of God not

of God," a

pleasing of our pride, but for the

for the

making sure of our

salva-

tion.

And and "

if

I

take

ethical opponents,

Even though,

you there is

with this

is

as

it

I

my

my modern moderns among my critics,

departure both from

say to the

seems to me, you wander and

you

logical consistency; for, as

elect

who

is

no inspiration

call for certainty,

metamorphosed

either,

still

;

and

and the whole sancta theologia

into the science of religion."

of the Lord, are

of origin

no more regard for the

on the other hand, who, because they

name

say, the Scripture

human

a scripture like other books, entirely

therefore there

with

err, yet

my

brethren

;

still

to

To

is

the ethicals,

confess the holy

them

I

say

:

"

Smelt

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