The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 17

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Biblical Criticism of the Present

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"

was intended.

425

That not unto themselves, but unto

did minister the things "

ages

Day.

i.

God

for the church of

e.

of

all

so that at the end of the dispensation of miracles, Al-

;

mighty God would be able to speak to and through with indeclinable certainty in

Word.

the Conscious

most

us, they

it

is

I

highest form, viz. in that of

the,

grant you, this

is

my own

but a refection out of

church

his

not a definition

communicating the impression of the Scripture-mystery. the Scripture-secret

a mystery, equally

is

:

at

soul for the sake of

For

wonderful and impen-

etrable as the creation in the beginning, the incarnation in the

midst of the ages, and the

catastrophe which

final

Wonderful, not for the sake of the book here also

it

is

:

God touching

the

upon what

the eternal broken

itself,

and the wave-beat of

finite,

devoid of

is

tarries.

still

but because

all

power

that in-

sures continuance of being.

If

now

the living

the question

God

is

what name the church of

raised by

has been accustomed to designate this

of origination of the Scripture,

we

opneusty, by the Holy Spirit."

From

reply

:

mode

" Inspiration, the-

the nature of the case

this

Scripture-theopneusty concerns a somewhat different ques-

tion

from that other

of revelation.

spoken,

I

This

inspiration, is

which was merely the vehicle Candidly

not said to evade a difficulty.

also belong to those

backward ones who stand im-

movably convinced that God wrote the law himself upon the tables of stone, spake himself with audible voice,

from

Sinai,

appeared in the theophanies, sent angels to comfort sinners, and. as the wonderful worker for, ful things, surely also foretold to

to,

the

and

man

wonder-

in Israel, of

in

prophecy what he,

Almighty One, thought of man, and purposed with the

children of men.

That

over in this paper, Vol.

LXI.

No.

is

all

that relates to revelation

therefore done least of

243.

2

all

is

passed

from fear

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