The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 27

— Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.

1904.]

With

least.

435

the Scripture the only question concerned

er the person

who wrote

the book that

inspired in the writing of

it

Isaiah,

was

so

For these are two

entire-

in their official activity

Moses

infallible product.

whether

ly different question,

wheth-

by the Holy Spirit that he pro-

-

duced a sure and

named

is

is,

and the prophets, or the evangelists and

apostles,

were led by

the Spirit and quickened as organs of revelation, or whether

the persons

who wrote our

Bible-books were in the writing

self inspired in the absolute sense.

and is

first

may

what the

They

have actually done.

ethicals

still

;

—and

Among

vention.

and

in all their official

are

God upon

willing

work an

to

the spirit of prophets

confess

Isaiah or a

with

sphere of revelation

this

us

John were men "

with the Holy Ghost," in their whole personality.

from

inter-

the elements of that revelation they too ac-

cept a certain working of apostles,

this

believe with

a revelation wrought by God through immediate

us in

it-

be granted

same time the second pertinently denied

at the

and

The

that filled

But when

pass on to the question of the

I

completion of the Scripture as Scripture, and of the puttingtogether in a book not only of what Paul and John themselves wrote, but of all the books, including the historic books,

which

before us, and then ask, whether a specifically peculiar

lie

and an absolutely sure inspiration governs they definitely deny

it,

and so deny the

this act of writing,

real inspiration of the

Scripture entirely.

Do we

hereby lay anything unlawfully at their charge

who

this

be decided by Rothe,

est,

and most celebrated among the soberer writers of

is

dency, and to whose processes of thought no single

ment has been added by the a

man

clares

:

to

"

whom

I

?

Let

the brightest, relatively clear-

later

this ten-

new

ele-

dogmatists of their class,

appeal more gladly because he himself de-

The opinion which

I

here write

down

is

none other

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