The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 23

Holy Scripture

the

author and

The in

organic resumption has

in its

is

each of

God

for their

given to the church as type of the incarnation.

Scripture, however,

is

also God's

word

analytically,

its

of

God

in a divine form, but

e.

because the

and

as well as the thoughts of men,

God

actual thoughts of

even those of Satan in so far as the Scripture writes

down

i.

parts; not because, each of these parts brings

new thought

us a

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1904.]

them

song and every narrative of the Bible,

for us, yea, every

even of what the godless have dared to undertake against

God Almighty,

word of

of the

e.

i.

here placed before us, not with the uncer-

human, but under the

tainty of the

the divine,

is

infallible

Holy

the

credential of

Spirit.

The

latest

Germany abandon more and more the idea of

dogmatists in

an inspiration which concerns the thoughts, but not the words.

Rothe declares

"

:

On

words and thoughts are

the whole,

There are no thoughts without words; they

inseparable."

cannot be expressed and held fast otherwise than in words

and by means of words." any longer. called

to advocate

it,

Even

moderns do not deny

the

was indeed pure

It

" thoughtlessness," as

an inspiration of the thoughts and to

deny the inspiration of the words.

He who

a thinker, let alone a psychologist.

No,

Spirit entered a

this

Rothe

human

does this

is

as often as the

personality, in order to use,

not

Holy

him

as

instrument for the writing of a page of Scripture, the end could not be reached save as either the thoughts that were already in him or those that were newly inspired into

his

human

our consciousness but of resentations

No

consciousness. itself it

of words and syntax. only,

and

left

If the

entered

puts on the garment of rep-

And

and conceptions.

forth out of this consciousness

first

thought can enter into

again they cannot come

upon paper save

Holy

Spirit

in the

form

gave the thoughts

the task of expression to man,

all

certainty

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