The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 14

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Biblical Criticism of the Present

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And

from what has become a temptation.

to break off

a temptation to

state-faculties are a temptation;

brethren

who

officially

scientific

world

warm and

a temptation to Christian parents

;

less

them the way to our

that

is

socially safest

young men who

desire to

For you know that from that

become ministers of God's word.

" faculty without theology " there runs a path to the

made

that has been us,

who have

honor, one

is

to this

earnest in their prayers for their sons,

are anxious to choose for

and a temptation no

the

Christian

weaned from homage

are not wholly

who, however

all

entirely

smooth and

reinstated the sancta theologia in

to all appearances surrounded

church

While with

straight.

its

former

by a wall without

any means of escape. II.

After the encyclopedic there follows the dogmatic side of

For the

the question.

according to

my

criticism of the present day,

biblical

second point, does not merely withhold the-

ology from the congregations, but, what

is

worse,

it

robs them

of their Bible.

When

do the congregations have a Bible and when not?

Allow me to speak of

this

holy matter plainly as a day-laborer,

because the Holy Scripture day-laborer and professor.

is

a divine jewel

And

then, I say

hesitatingly, to us Christians of the is

the

Word and

Reformed

the Scripture of our God.

or at the family-altar

I

it

common

to the

frankly and unfaith, the Bible

When

in private

read the Holy Scripture, neither Moses

my God. He it is who me the origin of all things and the calamitous man. God tells me with silent majesty how he has ap-

nor John addresses me, but the Lord then narrates to fall

of

pointed salvation to our fallen race. late the

I

hear him himself re-

wonders which he wrought for our deliverance and

that of the people of his choice,

and how, when that people

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