The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 57
IDOL] I
Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.
have shown with logical accuracy both the encyclopedic, dog-
and
matic,
spiritual
which
ecclesiastical ruin
perpetrated, and, that
cowardice,
against this I
687
my own
did this in the
fingers over
my
vandalism has
this critical
might shun the very appearance of
I
have boldly and candidly
I
over-
set
confession respecting the Holy Scripture.
consciousness that, with no cover or
still
eyes,
looked the criticism squarely in the
I
condoned and mollified nothing; and that with an hon-
face;
est, scientific
conscience
stand immovably firm in the confes-
I
sion of the inspiration by the Spirit. this
will occasion surprise
but
why should
come
am
I
quite prepared that
with one, bitterness with another;
be denied the right to speak,
I
to this pass, that even they
who
confess the
when
it
name
of Je-
has
sus offer the incense of approbation to the most radical anatomists of the Scripture
my
age of
ter foolishness to
" the
God
the
I
this conviction
hold myself fast to
God have embraced
Power
Lord has granted me
and though
the cour-
may seem
ut-
our modern Greeks, and to our ethical Israel
a stone of offense,
people of
?
conviction,
it
it,
even as
the dear
all
these nineteen centuries, as
power given us of God not
of God," a
pleasing of our pride, but for the
for the
making sure of our
salva-
tion.
And and "
if
I
take
ethical opponents,
Even though,
you there is
with this
is
as
it
I
my
my modern moderns among my critics,
departure both from
say to the
seems to me, you wander and
you
logical consistency; for, as
elect
who
is
no inspiration
call for certainty,
metamorphosed
either,
still
;
and
and the whole sancta theologia
into the science of religion."
of the Lord, are
of origin
no more regard for the
on the other hand, who, because they
name
say, the Scripture
human
a scripture like other books, entirely
therefore there
with
err, yet
my
brethren
;
still
to
To
is
the ethicals,
confess the holy
them
I
say
:
"
Smelt
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