The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 36

Biblical Criticism of the Present

666

ARTICLE

Day.

[Oct.

IV.

THE BIBLICAL CRITICISM OF THE PRESENT DAY.

1

BY THE REVEREND ABRAHAM KUYPER, D.D V LL.D. TRANSLATED BY THE REVEREND J. HENDRIK DE VRIES, D.D.

But some

of you

may

say, Is there

day?

biblical criticism of the present

over straws and a

game

no good whatever Is

it

in the

merely a stumbling

of critical splitting of hairs

you not heard of the very serious charges which are

Or have

?

laid against

Did not these grave asser-

the views of the ancient church? tions,

which, in spite of ourselves, compelled our scientific

mind

to agree

science?

And,

with them, ever disturb your if

so,

scientific

how can you harmonize your

con-

beautiful

confession with them?

In response to which inquiries, allow

which,

if it

does not engage

true to principle First, as ics

it

me

a single word,

with particulars, holds

itself

itself

and motive.

appears to me, the gigantic labor which our

have devoted to the Scripture,

is

by no means

lost.

contrary, I have the firm conviction that in the end,

crit-

On

the

and under

God's gracious disposal, even the excesses of the most radical

Scripture-anatomists will be productive of good.

could ciple

it

How

ever be unimportant and to no purpose, as far as prin-

and reverence allow

it,

Scripture in the processes of

to study the origin of the its

Holy

entering upon existence; to

point out the seams where the pieces of the shining robe have

been so beautifully woven together; and in a better

was ever done before 1

to frame,

if

way than

not with mathematical cer-

Concluded from page 442.

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