The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 34

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(who

Rothe, and his ethical friends

ethically

[July*

may

stand be-

neath the apostles), are perfectly well capable, with these imperfect pieces

hand, to attain unto " an errorless knowledge

-in

Thus Rothe

of the truth."

theory which rendered

of the apostles, as soon as genial

way

In this

allies.

upon the

readily turns his back

necessary to abandon the infallibility

it

touched himself and his con-

it

thelematic imperfection and noetic

accuracy are taken to be compatible with each other, and the of speech of the less " unconscious " people

common methods

resumes with the ethical scholars again

we

Hence, however much

its

original right.

appreciate in the ethical theo-

logians that struggling with both hands to oppose the irresist-

impulsive force of the principle, which, as a serpent fos-

ible

tered in their bosom, attacks their faith at the very heart

;

yet

this question of the theopneusty, their sys-

with reference to

tem may not be characterized

harshly than as a cloudy

less

mingling of philosophical theories with gnostic aspirations, covered by the content of a faith-consciousness which belongs to

Rome, and not

against

it,

that

by

to us

and that complaint must be entered

;

this threefold

motive

destruction of the inspiration of the Scripture-inspiration,

non

sit,"

that

old

all

:

" Sit

it still

tit

more

And

dogma

Of

the

sit

aut

clearly,

by the abandonment of the

result in nothing but self-deception

classify us in the corpus

church

Scripture.

Rothe himself has said

effort to save inspiration

guidance of others.

we

Holy

and the modern Lipsius expressed

dogma could

the

leads to the absolute

it

therefore,

and mis-

however much they may

virorum obscurorum, and try to make

ridiculous by the " automatcn-parodie,"

hold fast inexorably to the ancient and unweakened theop-

neusty

;

in

our historical simplicity,

cational backwardness,

main

still

ethically imperfect, an

ting without error

what

or, if

you

will, in

our edu-

believing that, even though he re-

embassador

is

capable of transmit-

his sovereign inspires

him

with.

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