' This
too is tolerable.
One writer says, 'Divine inspiration cannot be claimed for the
transcribers or translators of the original Scriptures.'
We think it can. We see no reason to doubt, but that many of the
transcribers and translators of the Scriptures were as much under the
influence of the Holy Spirit,--the spirit of love, and truth, and all
goodness,--as the original writers. Our impression is, that the common
version is as truly the work of divine inspiration, as any book on
earth.
One writer says, 'The language of the whole Bible is that of
appearances. In drawing illustrations from nature, the writers could not
have been understood, unless they had used figures and forms of speech
based on nature as popularly understood. Hence the heavenly bodies are
spoken of as revolving round the earth, the ant as storing up food in
summer, and the earth as being immovable, all of which are now known to
be contrary to [strict] truth.'
This writer, like some others, feeling as if he had gone too far in
uttering words so true, contradicts them a few pages after, and makes a
number of statements which remind one of what the Apostle says, about
handling the word of God deceitfully. One would be tempted to charge him
with 'cunning craftiness,' only his craft is not very cunning.
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