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402§ 73.ThisTHIS PRIXCIPIUMnot the case at all,isand he who thinks that the Holy-Spirit really gave the Scripture, buttion to our natural reason, trary, thetheHolySpirit,isnow leavesitswofully ...
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Chap.AND THE HOLY SCRIPTUREII]403and for the individuals among these nations, the rule remains valid that the substance of the knowledge of God, which comes to us from the special principium, is identical with the Holy Scripture. This would not be so if the Holy Script ...
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;404§ 73.AND HOLY SCRIPTURETHIS TRINCIPIUMmay have[Div.lUHis name. Not a Imndredtli part of course is told us of what happened or was spoken in former times, but here also there was light and shadow, there was perspective, and even as you ta ...
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Chap.II]§ 74.SPECIAL PEINCIPIUM AND WRITTENWORD405given to humanity as such, the Holy Bible itself is the proximate and sole cause (principium proximum et unicum) forour knowledge of God.The Special Pr-incipium and§ 74.The ...
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406§ 74.THE SPECIAL PRINCIPIUM[Div.IDOnly as pure idioconventional and arbitrary character. graphs did it escape from the conventional, and then only upon Writthe condition of being delineation instead of writing. photograph the ing, in the real sense of the wor ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...