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Chap.AXD THE WRITTEN WORDII]Withreference to thefirst407of tliese characteristics,itisreadily seen, that writing first of all relieves the spoken word " The word that is heard passes away, of its transitoriness.the lette ...
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408 our§ 74.humanrace.the earth at once.THE SPECIAL PRINCIPIUMThe whole human It[I^i^'-race does not liveHIuponappears on earth in a succession ofgenerations, one of which comes and the other passes away.th ...
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AND THE "WRITTEN WORDCiiAi'. II]409mighty limitations of our human existence, those of time and place. An important statement by Gladstone, spoken in the English Parliament after sundown, is printed before the sun rises again, and in a million copies spread among the masses, ...
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410§ 74.THE SPECIAL PRIXCIPIUM[Div. Illwhen divine thoughts take pleasure in the garment of human words, the Scripture is the only form in which theyfore,canrest.Butthis doesnot exhibit in full the excellency of thewe me ...
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Chap.AND THE WRITTEN WORDII]fixedness of the truth, whichnow411appears again in the oppo-sition against every confessional tie,and noless in theloudprotest against the written character of revelation, and this in a time ...
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412and§ 74.SPECIAL PKINCIPIUM AND WRITTENlieeu circulated atWORD[Div. Illonce in thousands of copies by themuch more certain than now handed down. Since, however, printing, as a strengthened form of writing, did not exist at that time, handw ...
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Inspiration.§ 75.weIfINSPIRATION413Its Relation to thePrincipium JEssendi§ 75.CnAi'. II]liave not failed entirely inour endeavor to appre-hend the .special principium in its full significance, and if thereby we in ...
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414§ 75.takesitINSPIRATION.in this sense arrives atHoly Scripture. knowing (cognoscendi) at theRELATIONITSsome[Div. Illsort of Koran, but notIn that case the principium ofis taken entirely apart from the pr ...
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,Chap.TO THE PRINCIPIUM ESSENDIII]415one continuous miracle, which shows renewal of the life of man by regeneration, in the radical renewal of the life of humanity by the the Divine energyisitself in the radicalnew Head whichit ...
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416§75.reality,andINSPIKATIOX.tliereforeITSRELATION[Div. Illwith the principium of being, exceptand events have been transformed beforeIt is in a thought, i.e. have become a narrative.so far as the factshand ...