The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 16

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Day.

Biblical Criticism of the Present

listen to

tens to

what God speaks

what

me; and, when

to

I

[July,

God

pray,

lis-

stammer."

I

This does not mean that the church looks for something extraordinary in that

Book

A

as such.

sacra scriptures inhcerens," such

is

maintained by some,

To him

ist.

mond. dark

the holy

As long

state,

book

Lutheran

the

as

taught over against Rathman, and such selves

"vis supernaturalis

as, alas

it

our-

as the deep water in the dia-

is

on

as that precious stone lies

table in its

the,

diamond can scarcely be

the most beautiful

only by the inshining of the light.

ture becomes the

faculties

among

inconceivable for the Calvin-

is

Value

tinguished from a worthless piece of glass. to

!

In this

way

dis-

imparted

is

the Scrip-

Holy Scripture only when the Holy

Spirit

sends forth his reflections, which causes God, the omnipresent

my

God, to address figure of speech

the telephone

soul in

and through

were not profane, a speaking

is

I

If

If the

say, that,

even as

would

from the

book of the Testaments to me.

that book.

distance, such

now

I

that

is

enter into relations

with that book, and the Holy Spirit works his illumination, then

is

my

my

soul joined to

God, and

my God

and the speech of the Eternal One begins. something accidental in the Scripture did not originate of fixed plan.

The

itself,

nies "

its

God

soul,

Every idea of a

thus excluded.

It

after a

contained the original,

given us in the Scripture.

" I

have

of old," sings the Psalmist, " concerning thy testimo" that thou hast established

in which"

the

is

is

my

was brought about

it

eternal counsel of

the faint copy of which

known

but

to

it

was

to develop itself

germ from which full glory.

own

was

to

The

grow

life.

soil

in

lay the protoplasm of

It is the living stone, firm, solid as stone,

yet seething with for their

it

them forever."

was expressly prepared;

They who wrote

it

and

did not write

it

which

it

sakes, but for the church of God, for

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