The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 26

Biblical Criticism of the Present

434 sions

from the declaration of

Day.

[July,

their self-consciousness,

which

renders the test of their declaration concerning the parts of

more necessary.

Scripture in. particular the

demand concerning

justly

the Scripture, viz,

What they unthat we should

not commit ourselves to what the Scripture says of to

what we observe help

to

us

studies.

much

it

as a whole, will be the only safe, guide

make our way through call

I

in

it

a labyrinth;

for,

the labyrinth of their

the complaint cannot be

definiteness

however

in sooth, with

indulgence and brotherly kindness

labors,

but

itself,

we may judge

their

repressed, that by the in-

which characterizes the

definitions of their con-

and from

ceptions, the writers of this tendency both mutually

themselves, even at times in their self-same books, so differ

from each ethical

hand

To

other,

and so confuse the representation, that to be

of tendency and clear seem never capable of going

in hand.

hold myself strenuously to the point in question,

I

pass

the consideration by, whether, in their general starting-point, the ethicals

still

stand upon the basis of the faith, and confine

myself exclusively to the assertion, that, so far as the particular point of the

Scripture-inspiration,

gether walk the line of the moderns. ter of revelation, the ethicals

the

moderns deny, and even

who deny

still

For though,

radically depart

;

concerns

they altoin the

mat-

acknowledge much of what

every intervention of the living

has once entered upon being

it

from the moderns

God

in that

and while, for the most

ethicals accept such a personal role

which

part, the

on the part of God in

his-

tory by manifestation and revelation, by regeneration and lumination, tion.

still

all this

il-

does not touch the Scripture inspira-

Whether, for instance, in

his prophecies

which he pro-

claimed on the squares of Jerusalem, Isaiah was operated by the

Holy

Spirit does not affect the Scripture-question in the

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