The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 54
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Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.
This
are born.
the fulfillment of the jubilant prophecy, that
is
say to his brother, "
man need no more for that all shall know
a
Or,
est.
Know
the Lord,"
him, even from the least unto the great-
you please,
if
[Oct.
call
and only
the. holy, divine,
it
real
equality which brings the profoundest scholar to his knees by
the side of the humblest house-mother, with an assurance in the heart
which
absolutely similar and unmovable.
is
But, and this
our complaint, the newer Scripture-study
is
injures, likewise, this beautifully ordered state of things.
turns loose
out of
its
what was
grooves
;
fast;
Of
men
who have
edge of the original languages
humble layman
self
!
hear
scarcely will,
"
have
is
But even
how
text itself
they is
tell
with appeals to the original their
forced to exclaim: "
Would
!
an elementary knowl-
own idea, until the What a wretched transread Greek and Hebrew my-
by
substitute the translation
lation I
of Semitic and classical
course nothing remains of the translation, and
youthful preachers
text,
each piece of the Scripture
it lifts
and, unwilling and helpless, the laity are
delivered into the hands of the studies.
It
that I could
this
you
is
not the end, misguided soul
in all varieties of
ways
;
for,
that the original
hopelessly impaired, even to such an extent that
the manuscripts offer no sufficient result, and turn on turn the
conjecture-process must be
risked;
and then,
—
oh,
the
height of self-conceit, of which, drifting with that stream, I
myself was guilty,
—we
see
young men coming
academy who deem themselves train their wits at the all.
fully
by practicing the
But then the poor
narrative
is
a myth,
laity
matured and
art of
expense of the Holy Scripture.
fresh
from the
justified to
making conjectures
And even
must furthermore be
if
that
were
told that this
and the other has come to us from
Parseeism; that not only with respect to editorship but also with respect to the content, the books of Moses are of
much
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van vrijdag 1 januari 1904
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van vrijdag 1 januari 1904
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's