Gains to the Bible from Modern Criticism: And Other EssaysBritish and Foreign Unitarian Association, 1913 - 314 páginas |
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... stand on its feet as a man , and with a man's voice given to it , at once into a colossal Memnon's head , a hollow passage for a voice , a voice that mocks the voices of many men , and speaks in their names , and yet is but one voice ...
... stand on its feet as a man , and with a man's voice given to it , at once into a colossal Memnon's head , a hollow passage for a voice , a voice that mocks the voices of many men , and speaks in their names , and yet is but one voice ...
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... desirest not sacrifice else would I give it , thou delightest not in burnt - offering ' ? Did he compose those portions of the Old Testament which 6 stand nearer than any others to the feelings and aspirations 34 OLD AND NEW CONCEPTIONS.
... desirest not sacrifice else would I give it , thou delightest not in burnt - offering ' ? Did he compose those portions of the Old Testament which 6 stand nearer than any others to the feelings and aspirations 34 OLD AND NEW CONCEPTIONS.
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And Other Essays. stand nearer than any others to the feelings and aspirations of Christianity ? Again we leap over some two centuries or more , during which not even the faintest after - vibrations of David's harp are to be heard , and ...
And Other Essays. stand nearer than any others to the feelings and aspirations of Christianity ? Again we leap over some two centuries or more , during which not even the faintest after - vibrations of David's harp are to be heard , and ...
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... standing by itself , and is not to be judged by human reason . And , from this point of view , they have their own way of bringing order out of the seeming chaos . To them the whole of the Old Testament is the divine forecast of the New ...
... standing by itself , and is not to be judged by human reason . And , from this point of view , they have their own way of bringing order out of the seeming chaos . To them the whole of the Old Testament is the divine forecast of the New ...
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... stands before us revealed in all the details of his personality and his mission , so that the biographers of the Lord will have scarcely to do more than collect and comment upon the scattered revelations of the Sacred Books , re - read ...
... stands before us revealed in all the details of his personality and his mission , so that the biographers of the Lord will have scarcely to do more than collect and comment upon the scattered revelations of the Sacred Books , re - read ...
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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.