The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 50

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Day.

Biblical Criticism of the Present

elect has the

Holy

Spirit rested, until the

Word,

[Oct. infallibly in-

spired centuries ago, bare fruit equally infallible in that soul, as

though

it

The Holy as tides

had been inspired

for the sake of that soul alone.

Spirit effects this purpose in

humana and

tides divina

Fides humana which ceeding from God,

is

two ways; which

must sharply be distinguished.

and therefore equally surely pro-

fides,

the reliance which the church places in

is

work by means of

the authority of the Spirit's

the organism

of the church, which aims at the canon, the determining of the

and the exegesis of the books.

text, the translation

Concern-

ing each of these, therefore, a brief word.

What books form certain as

it

is

human

belong to a normal ism.

the canon,

is

to the anatomist,

it

unquestionably

itself as

The

body.

Nothing can be added to

by

what members do or do not Scripture

or taken

an organ-

is

away from

complete in the fullness of numbers and entirety of

The

question, however, whether at each given

church

is

It is

it.

its

parts.

moment

in the possession of the anatomical tact

which

the is

necessary with a firm hand to decide upon each part of the Scripture, or each book that

is

waters of spiritual

volume or

life in

contract.

confidence of the

fluctuates as the

the midst of the churches swell in

But so

laity,

presented with this claim, must

That certainty

be answered in the negative.

the

far

from lessening thereby the

Holy

Spirit has so disposed the

parts of Scripture, that those

on which the

life

depends have

never been doubted, and in the books that have never been

doubted the stream of truth flows sequently the

Holy

in all its fullness

;

and sub-

Spirit has directed also this canonical

work

with so firm a hand, that the generous recognition of by far the most books astonishes us far

more than

the continuous

doubt expressed concerning a very few.

With

respect to the text of the Sacred Scripture, the

same

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