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'It is no reply to the essential claims of the Bible to be a
supernatural revelation from God, to show that certain speculative
theories concerning the manner and degree of its inspiration are
untenable.'
From whose works the following quotation is made, we do not remember.
'The watchword of the Reformation was, 'The sufficiency of the
Scriptures for salvation.'
'Definite theories of inspiration were seldom propounded till of late
years.
'The Bible is a revelation of spiritual truth communicated chiefly in
illustrations and figurative language, and making use of the history,
chronology, and other sciences of the age, as vehicles or helps. This
principle will explain those seeming contradictions [to science] which
result from the use of popular language, as when the sun and moon are
said to stand still, or when the sun is said to go from one end of the
heaven to the other, etc. It will also account for many actual errors in
science, chronology, and history, should such be found to exist. The
Scriptures were not intended to teach men these things, but to reveal
what relates to our connection with moral law, and the spiritual world,
and our salvation. In teaching these things, the writers availed
themselves of the _popular_ language, and the current science and
literature of the age in which they lived.
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