The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 46

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Biblical Criticism of the Present

676

passages of

out the

each other, in their

Hence ology a

even though

it

be covered, harmony.

the need of loci paralleli, not after the style of the de-

parted supranaturalists, !

[Oct.

sound contradictory to

Scripture that

real,

Day.

—

ah, they, indeed,

had no more the-

and Voetiuses

no, but in the spirit of the Juniuses

spiritual,

amateur

—

no narrow-minded Harmonistica

effort,

not a pitiful

;

but a logical interpretation of our sense of

representation by paying attention to the 7roVe; 7rw?; vtto tivo?]

and Kara 4.

If,

rfc.

then, there

interpretum, in the that implies

even then

I

still

remain seeming inexplicables,

Holy

nothing,

Scripture, before

—but

which not

critces I,

—for

confessing theologians stand,

all

do not hesitate a moment to say

it

in the hearing

of the whole scientific world, that, facing the choice between

leaving this question unanswered, and with the simple-minded

people of

God

ethical brethren

confessing

from

of the Scripture,

bility

my

ignorance, or with the learned

scientific logicalness rejecting the infalliI

firmly choose the

whole soul shrink back from the

and with

first,

my

last.

For, to say with Rothe and his followers, that there are

myths tasy

;

in the Scripture; the creation-narrative is pious

phantasy likewise the narrative of the

fall

;

phan-

the prophecies

are products of a higher-tensioned spiritual life;

the testi-

monies borne by Christ and his apostles concerning the Old

Covenant are devoid of normative power; the apostolic representation of the truth

is

equally

little

normative and bind-

ing even the image of the Christ which they outline and paint ;

is

not fixedly reliable; and then solemnly to declare that the

whole Scripture from Gen. of God,

is

more than

wonderfully

much

hear, but of

which

I

i.

1 to

can do;

Rev. xxii. 21

it is

is

too bold for

their

me;

like a protestatio actui contraria, I

have no understanding.

it

Word looks

which

I

And when, more-

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