The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 52

Biblical Criticism of the Present

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prosperous period of her spiritual

life,

[Oct

Day.

are for this reason the

Bible to the people; to theologians indeed ever appealable to the original,

and never in

itself to be;

taken as authority, but

of so great value nevertheless and of such spiritual signifi-

layman

cance, that, under the Spirit's leading, the justified

who

to a text that

And,

Holy

ion,

the

cises

was foreign

finally, as to the

the

is

entirely

binds his conscience to this translation, and not

Spirit

is

to him.

exegesis of the Scripture, here also

the real exegete and, in difference of opin-

Snpremus Judex.

by laying out the

This judicature the Spirit exer-

lines of the truth in the confessional

standards of the churches

;

by impelling the preaching and the

study of the Scripture in those lines instrumental use of the

;

and even when,

Word, He accustoms

in the

the souls of be-

lievers to that fixed course.

But, however

much

be able to quicken a finish the

work

this

-fides

of the

providence of the Holy Spirit

humana

Holy

Spirit.

in the churches,

For

this

it

human

may

does not faith can

never give absolute assurance, and Calvin himself recognized that an unregenerated

man, provided he

is

a

man

of thought,

cannot be convinced by us of the theopneusty of the Scriptures.

The semi-somnolent masses may be

held in rein by ecclesi-

but independent, thoughtful spirits never.

astical

authority,

Not

though there were separate rules for rich and poor, but

as

" the

because, as Twesten correctly observes,

absolute faith

on the divine character of the Scripture can never rest other than on the immediately divine witness."

For

if

human

rea-

son were ever able to demonstrate the divine, then reason

would stand superior

to the divine,

character of the divine

However much our

and thus, eo

ipso, the divine

word would be

destroyed.

fathers depended

upon the

theistic

and

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