The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 51

,

Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.

1904.]

confession

New

language for the

certainly stripped of

we

ever,

There

in place.

is

official text in

the original

Testament, and the tcxtus receptus

much beauty by

Of

errors.

is

how-

this,

likewise confess that that text has not been abandoned

to chance, but has been

Holy

no

is

G81

Spirit.

It

watched over with tender care by the

cannot be granted that, when

moment had come

counsel of God, the great

four centuries ago, the

Word

of

God was

some

upon

to enter

vast circulation through the press, the text which

the

in

finally,

in which,

its

was then

chosen under the appointment of God can have been an indifferent one

;

a most imperfect and an almost hopelessly im-

paired and injured one; and it is

entitled to a peculiarly

on account of

must rather be confessed

it

prominent place

in the front

ranks

At

eminently historical significance.

its

that

the

hand of other manuscripts the textus receptus may and must be subjected to corrections, but, disrobed of erence,

it

never needs to

castaway per

make room

For myself,

se.

its

spiritual pref-

for older witnesses as a

at least, I

have never

felt

the

logical stress of the

argument, that a manuscript of the fourth

century, eo ipso,

a more correct copy of the autographon,

is

than a manuscript of an early origin but perhaps following

an older and therefore a purer

The

even though it

well, that

inal,

the

it

be least of

now

all in

absolute measures.

in the translations alone,

and not

Consider

in the orig-

Word

ing God, and

Even

text.

direction of the Spirit also included the translations

literary

exists for thousands who thirst after the livwho without that Word will never find Him. men declare that both Luther's version and the

Dutch staten-Bible are such surprising products of

sanctified

genius, that, apart from a higher inspiration, they can scarcely

be explained.

Such

and ground of the

translations

truth,

by the church, as the

and offered

pillar

to the laity in the very

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