The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 56

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Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.

become the

whom

seers of our days,

and the specialty

in

all Israel

[Oct.

must counsel;

High

introduction-studies becomes the

whose oracle the aston-

Priest of a new-born church, before

ished masses "bend their -knees.

Add

to this that, in

consequence of

all-disintegrating

this

new preacher has other

criticism, every

things to proclaim in

the self-same congregation; also, that this theistic, never-ceas-

ing activity of the Holy Spirit else the testimony of the

spiration

is

either

Fichtean sense Is

it

said too

Holy

weakened

much,

ignored; yea, that above

Spirit in the

same way

Lutheran

after the

subjectivated,

is

is

—and,

style,

all

as in-

or in the

in all seriousness, I ask,

spoken too crassly, when, after having

is it

exhibited this vivisection that has presumptuously been applied to the Scripture, as the corruptor of

nihilator of the Bible, I at length

an avenue to clericalism

;

this

this

its

it

as

Spirit, I protest against

and

this

injury

the liberty of the laity?

my

and

task,

my

threefold pro-

against the biblical criticism of the present day has been

entered.

I find

no

outside, nor with

fault with

the church of Christ,

ology, the

those

who

at their

what

done by those

is

what has been done by any But

of Semitic philologians.

and

I

who

are

in the capacity

deplore that in the domain of

in the very temple of the sacred the-

Holy Scripture has been

so roughly handled by

profess themselves to be Christian theologians, that

hand the Holy Bible has been

ingly carved and torn loose in its

brand

from Spain and on the

liberty

violation of the right of the churches

have come to the end of

test

less seriously

Testimony of the Holy

worked against

I

no

and that therefore, as a free-born son

of a nation which purchased

ground of

our theology and the an-

organism remodeled

its

recklessly

several parts,

and unsparand has had

after philosophical hypotheses. I think

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