The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 22

Biblical Criticism of the Present

430

Day.

[July,

than leaders which you employ to repeat the impression of

your

spirit in the spirit of the other,

conscious, and full-orbed thought

was only

why

him which

at first

And

and which only now has come to him.

in you,

then should not the Holy Spirit, who, after

all,

is

to these intermediate links of nerves, air-waves,

bound

muscles,

—why

in

within

not

and

should not the Holy Spirit not be able to do

we

immediately what ing

so that the same clear,

arises in

are,

entirely

transplant

us,

do mediately, and, enter-

able to

into our spirit?

from himself

full-orbed thoughts

conscious, new, and

Hence

I

take the writers as entirely instrumentally in the, service of

the

Holy

Spirit,

including everything they knew, together

with the entire result of their previous training, even to their

surroundings and credentials, and maintain that the Holy

whole person, with everything belonging

Spirit has used this

and through him,

to him, to remind in think, to write; but

intermediaries

of

to sift, to purge, to

also, alongside of this, that

without any

motor or sensor nerves, and hence also

without inflection of the muscles of speech, or the vibration of the air-wave, the

Holy

Spirit

ous, clear thoughts to them. ble voice is

sufficiently

is

communicated new, consci-

That God

shown by

also spoke with audi-

Sinai and Tabor.

But

this

not the question with the inspiration of the Scripture; this

was

inspiration

by the entering

trum of the personality of the jection of

of the

By

what was

Holy this

in

in of the Spirit into the cen-

writers,

and an absolute sub-

and belonged to them to the sovereignty

Spirit.

the rationalistic pretext which separates between

" Scripture " and "

Word

of

God

"

even as the present-day

judged of

it-

God's word both as a whole and in

its

protest against the inspiration of the words, self.

parts.

The

Scripture

is

Synthetically, because the extent

is

and the content of

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