Gains to the Bible from Modern Criticism: And Other EssaysBritish and Foreign Unitarian Association, 1913 - 314 páginas |
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... interpretation of the Bible . The inter- pretation of sacred books has been every- where and always a scandalous satire upon the dogma of their infallibility . Notoriously the interpreters of these books have made them mean everything ...
... interpretation of the Bible . The inter- pretation of sacred books has been every- where and always a scandalous satire upon the dogma of their infallibility . Notoriously the interpreters of these books have made them mean everything ...
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... interpretation of ancient books generally ; -a measure of certainty which is infalli- bility itself compared with the appalling vagaries and wild guesses of precritical interpreters . This service criticism has rendered by first of all ...
... interpretation of ancient books generally ; -a measure of certainty which is infalli- bility itself compared with the appalling vagaries and wild guesses of precritical interpreters . This service criticism has rendered by first of all ...
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... interpretation even a yet thicker veil over the face of the Bible . Criticism has taken both veils away , letting us see the beauty and glory of both the truth and the Bible . ( 2 ) Criticism has proved a better defence of the Bible ...
... interpretation even a yet thicker veil over the face of the Bible . Criticism has taken both veils away , letting us see the beauty and glory of both the truth and the Bible . ( 2 ) Criticism has proved a better defence of the Bible ...
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... interpretation , and yet until modern criticism began its work , no serious attention was paid to them . The consequence was necessarily that the high literary qualities of Hebrew literature re- mained unrecognized , and one of the ...
... interpretation , and yet until modern criticism began its work , no serious attention was paid to them . The consequence was necessarily that the high literary qualities of Hebrew literature re- mained unrecognized , and one of the ...
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... interpretation will be disposed to treat it with hardness or indifference . It has a sublimity and a beauty of its own that would entitle it to our respect quite apart from the con- sideration due to opinions earnestly and honestly held ...
... interpretation will be disposed to treat it with hardness or indifference . It has a sublimity and a beauty of its own that would entitle it to our respect quite apart from the con- sideration due to opinions earnestly and honestly held ...
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argument authority beauty believe Bible Biblical bibliolatry book of Isaiah book of Joshua Burns Calvinism Calvinistic century Chart child Christ Christian Church Church of Rome claim connexion Cotter's Saturday Night Covenanters creed criticism Deity Deuteronomy divine doctrine dogmatic doubt Drummond Early Narratives Elohist experience faith father feeling felt God's Gospel heart Hebrew Hebrew literature heresy heretical heterodoxy Hexateuch Higher Criticism History of Israel holy human idea infallible inspiration interpretation Israel Israelites Jesus literature logical meaning ment mind modern moral nature never Old Testament once orthodox Pentateuch personality poem precritical Priestly Codex principle Prophets Psalms question reason regard relation religion religious revelation Scotland Scottish Scripture sense soul spiritual Stevenson teaching theology things thou thought tion Trinity true truth Unitarian Movement unity whole William Burness words worship writings written Yahveh Zaleucus
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Página 17 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. "Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 166 - Slowly the Bible of the race is writ, And not on paper leaves nor leaves of stone ; Each age, each kindred, adds a verse to it, Texts of despair or hope, of joy or moan. While swings the sea, while mists the mountains shroud, While thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets' feet the nations sit BEAVER BROOK.
Página 227 - GENERAL Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of (rod,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God.
Página 71 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Página 182 - How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command.
Página 177 - But, hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek...
Página 43 - When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Página 71 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Página 177 - The younkers a' are warned to obey ; And mind their labours wi' an eydent hand, And ne'er tho' out o' sight, to jauk or play ; 'And O ! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night ; Lest in temptation's path you gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.' But hark! a rap comes gently to the door; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neibor lad came o'er the moor, To do some errands, and...
Página 227 - It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one, and utterly like ; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed according to the diversities of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's Word.