The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 55

;

Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.

1904.] later origin

that the reports of the creation

;

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and of the

are

fall

sacred phantasies; that Daniel was a pious fraud; yea, even that the

word of

the apostles cannot be normative, neither for

our confession nor for the picture which we form for ourselves

To

of the Lord.

cerns

must

all this the laity

Word, apart from every formula sion of the

mean by ly

this the Scripture

" Is

it

what

swer runs,

is

"

" the

in that Scripture."

No,

it

not that.

is

And

this

it

is

is

was

the proper confes-

And when

asks, "

further

The prophets

called

it

all

as

it

feels

pense of the needs of her soul.

well

know

It stings

name

jeering clericalism, and in the

game

all

deeply

sacred

at the ex-

her as the insult of a

of the Lord she resents

that even thus the

and does work an inward and certain witness ated soul, by

own

under the jeers that impugn

the seriousness of her heart, and as under a

I

so in a

the intensity

of her thirst after liberty and zeal of fidelity to a

For, though

asked,

the an-

really the product of their

what the church of God

She smarts under

Do you

it is

word?" again

hurt about, and against which she rebels with

charge.

con-

answer runs, " No, but mere-

there recorded as God's

metaphorical sense, but thoughts."

?

of faith,

it

that God's

told,

And when one

Reformed Church.

God's word

and when

listen;

standard, they are

confessional

the

Holy

it.

Spirit can

in the regener-

this the historic consciousness is

weakened

—and moreover, aside from the regenerated and the redeemed, there are

still

the children of the churches,

blood rush to the face to see

how

bly cruelly these vivisectors of the

and

it

makes the

mercilessly and unpardona-

Holy Scriptures

deal with

the souls of our children.

For of course, when the Scripture they say

it

is,

a

common copy

most worthless volume can explain

it

from

his

;

is

;

to question as

of our version becomes an

the country-pastor

books

open

is

the only one

al-

who

the Orientalist and the Graecist

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