The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 54

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Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.

This

are born.

the fulfillment of the jubilant prophecy, that

is

say to his brother, "

man need no more for that all shall know

a

Or,

est.

Know

the Lord,"

him, even from the least unto the great-

you please,

if

[Oct.

call

and only

the. holy, divine,

it

real

equality which brings the profoundest scholar to his knees by

the side of the humblest house-mother, with an assurance in the heart

which

absolutely similar and unmovable.

is

But, and this

our complaint, the newer Scripture-study

is

injures, likewise, this beautifully ordered state of things.

turns loose

out of

its

what was

grooves

;

fast;

Of

men

who have

edge of the original languages

humble layman

self

!

hear

scarcely will,

"

have

is

But even

how

text itself

they is

tell

with appeals to the original their

forced to exclaim: "

Would

!

an elementary knowl-

own idea, until the What a wretched transread Greek and Hebrew my-

by

substitute the translation

lation I

of Semitic and classical

course nothing remains of the translation, and

youthful preachers

text,

each piece of the Scripture

it lifts

and, unwilling and helpless, the laity are

delivered into the hands of the studies.

It

that I could

this

you

is

not the end, misguided soul

in all varieties of

ways

;

for,

that the original

hopelessly impaired, even to such an extent that

the manuscripts offer no sufficient result, and turn on turn the

conjecture-process must be

risked;

and then,

—

oh,

the

height of self-conceit, of which, drifting with that stream, I

myself was guilty,

—we

see

young men coming

academy who deem themselves train their wits at the all.

fully

by practicing the

But then the poor

narrative

is

a myth,

laity

matured and

art of

expense of the Holy Scripture.

fresh

from the

justified to

making conjectures

And even

must furthermore be

if

that

were

told that this

and the other has come to us from

Parseeism; that not only with respect to editorship but also with respect to the content, the books of Moses are of

much

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