The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 38

Day.

Biblical Criticism of the Present

668

ness the rougher to

Such a hypenesthesis becomes

sense.

its

[Oct.

a power

that governs the patient, the irresistible impulse of

which

heightened by one's very efforts to

is

fore not every one is

all

but

it

must

be determined, by the principle of theology

first

whether we deal with a normal observer, or with one

who, abnormally excited, Finally, the it

not able to criticise correctly.

is

Holy Scripture condemns

that governs

which has made

bend

age, should

felt in this

the world

and the

its

so strongly

itself

energies toward the breaking-

Either

of the authority of the Scripture.

it

must bend

before the Scripture or the Scripture must bend to

cannot be otherwise than that the world, must

And

Scripture, have is

which

spirit

wage inexorable war against the

The

spired the Scripture. diametrical.

since

we

who

possible that our biblical criticism

may

attach

may

it

adopt a tentative

its

it,

itself,

our study

authority. this

at all, devote to

and the choicest of

The principle of theology

is

This single

no significance whatever to

the Scripture, and scarcely believe in best parts of their life

the

inspires

world, the danger

mask of honoring

tend to undermine

many men who

it

spirit that in-

presumption has indeed become a probability by fact, that

and

are investigators of the

spirit of the

character, whereby, under the

it,

formed by the two

antithesis also,

drunk of the

of the Scripture

spir-

Hence nothing can be more natural than

it.

that this spirit of the world,

down

Where-

criticism indiscriminately to be taken into account,

nor

itself,

who

resist.

announces himself needs to be heard,

it

the

their powers.

therefore,

must needs watch

against the degeneration of her scientific and sacred character,

both as regards the extent of the principle, the assthesis

of the investigator,

of the investigation. If that

were

my

and that which determines the tendency

Hence

aim,

I

I

do not plead for conservatism.

could readily

make my

task

much

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