The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 42

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Day.

Biblical Criticism of the Present

how can you

;

[Oct.

dare to pass criticism upon the self-consciousness

when you have no

of the Scripture

other standard in hand

than that which you assume to find in the Scripture?

And,

claims

If,

Scripture of the

with a

and

Old Covenant

this inspiration

the Christ and his anointed

itself; to-wit,

then, Christ

is

it

is

his apostles declare that the

very really inspired, and that

of binding authority even to the ex-

word

tent of the individual if,

but the highest interpreter of the

be,

to

Scripture-organism apostolate.

by

Rothe nor Rabiger what the

therefore, I neither ask

Scripture

lifted finger, the

;

or, to cite

Son of God says

so has Daniel the prophet spoken

and

like

I,

the ethicals, should

notwithstanding, then claim to the

name

I

a single point in

;

my

to

"

me,

detail,

Thus and

disciples, consider it

!"

form a contrary conclusion

would deem

of theologian, and

had forfeited the

that I

would consider myself

I

to have entered into a flagrant contest with the real principle

of

my

science, since I contradicted the

Holy

Spirit in the self-

conscious declaration of his absolute interpreters.

Every

3.

critical

study of the Holy Scripture must be re-

jected as being foreign to theology,

which

governed by a

is

philosophical principle which evidently reacts against the principle of the

a

good

Holy

(1)

tion,

there

this

canon especially interprets

deal.

Let us consider

of the

And

Spirit.

following four points

this in the

:

Indisputably the entire Scripture-study, especially that

Old Testament,

is

at this

whether there was a

fall

moment governed by

from holy

was a gradual ascent from

to unholy, or

Christian church.

And

whether

the lower to the pure

holy. This question returns in three stages

then with Israel in the wilderness

the ques-

;

and,

:

First,

finally,

because this question

in the negative, the hamartialogy of Genesis

is

with

and

Adam

with the early

now answered

iii.

must be the

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