The Bible Doctrine Of Inspiration Explained And Vindicated PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...Sadducees is traced by the Saviour to their not knowing "the Scripture, nor; the power of God." (Matthew xxii. 29.) If they 1 "The Scripture is here identified with God, its Author. The case, as Tholuck remarks, is different when merely something contained in Scripture is introduced by 'the Scripture saith'; there 'the Scripture' is merely personified. The justice of Tholuck's remark will be apparent, if we reflect that this expression could not be used of the mere ordinary words of any man in the historical Scriptures, Ahab, or Hezekiah, --but only where the text itself speaks, or where God spoke, or, as here, some man under the inspiration of God." (Alford, Greek Testament, on Rom. ix. 17.) It is also worthy of notice, that, while the Apostle quotes ordinarily from the Septuagint, as the version familiar to the people, he in this expression (as in many other instances) departs from it, to introduce a more literal and exact translation of his own from the original Hebrew. had properly known and reverenced the one, they would have felt and enjoyed the other. The minute circumstances, as well as the great burden, of Christ's sufferings, are all represented as necessary in order "that the Scriptures might be fulfilled." (Mark xiv. 49; xv. 28; John xix. 24, 28, 36.) This points clearly to the divine foreknowledge and authority found in those writings. The expression of our Lord, " the Scripture cannot be broken" (John x. 35), is an impressive instance of argument to the Pharisees based on a single word. He says it is in "your law," referring to a passage in the Psalms (Ixxxii. 6), thus recognizing this as on a level with that portion of the Scripture to which the Jews gave the highest honor....