The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 16
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Day.
Biblical Criticism of the Present
listen to
tens to
what God speaks
what
me; and, when
to
I
[July,
God
pray,
lis-
stammer."
I
This does not mean that the church looks for something extraordinary in that
Book
A
as such.
sacra scriptures inhcerens," such
is
maintained by some,
To him
ist.
mond. dark
the holy
As long
state,
book
Lutheran
the
as
taught over against Rathman, and such selves
"vis supernaturalis
as, alas
it
our-
as the deep water in the dia-
is
on
as that precious stone lies
table in its
the,
diamond can scarcely be
the most beautiful
only by the inshining of the light.
ture becomes the
faculties
among
inconceivable for the Calvin-
is
Value
tinguished from a worthless piece of glass. to
!
In this
way
dis-
imparted
is
the Scrip-
Holy Scripture only when the Holy
Spirit
sends forth his reflections, which causes God, the omnipresent
my
God, to address figure of speech
the telephone
soul in
and through
were not profane, a speaking
is
I
If
If the
say, that,
even as
would
from the
book of the Testaments to me.
that book.
distance, such
now
I
that
is
enter into relations
with that book, and the Holy Spirit works his illumination, then
is
my
my
soul joined to
God, and
my God
and the speech of the Eternal One begins. something accidental in the Scripture did not originate of fixed plan.
The
itself,
nies "
its
God
soul,
Every idea of a
thus excluded.
It
after a
contained the original,
given us in the Scripture.
" I
have
of old," sings the Psalmist, " concerning thy testimo" that thou hast established
in which"
the
is
is
my
was brought about
it
eternal counsel of
the faint copy of which
known
but
to
it
was
to develop itself
germ from which full glory.
own
was
to
The
grow
life.
soil
in
lay the protoplasm of
It is the living stone, firm, solid as stone,
yet seething with for their
it
them forever."
was expressly prepared;
They who wrote
it
and
did not write
it
which
it
sakes, but for the church of God, for
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Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's
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Abraham Kuyper Collection | 58 Pagina's