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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1862 Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION. § I. THE PROBLEM OF THE BOOK. 1. The Books of Scripture, so far as interpretation and general formal criticism are concerned, must be handled verymuch as other books are handled. We do not speak here of the feeling of reverence and solemnity with which we handle these books, knowing them to be the Word of God, and bow under their meaning so soon as it is ascertained; but of the intellectual treatment and examination of them during the process of ascertaining their meaning. That treatment must be mainly the same as the treatment which we give to other books. But though the divinity of Scripture has usually no influence directly on its formal criticism, and comes into operation only to give effect and authority to the ascertained meaning; yet it is also to a certain extent operative in some questions of criticism, those chiefly of authorship and era, if not in the way of influencing the decision of such questions, yet in making the decision one way or other of much less practical consequence. The Word of God, like Him who was the eternal Word, is no doubt a divine-human thing; but the divine in Scripture being a constant, while the human is a variable, and the divine being also always at the back of the human as initial impulse and ruling principle, we are justified in our contemplation of Scripture in neglecting in certain aspects the human altogether, and in calling it divine. Scripture is a divine fact. But every divine fact is the embodiment of a divine idea. Scripture b realizes a divine idea as much as creation does, or as humanitydoes. Moreover this idea is not the idea of a builder, for instance, but the idea of a creator; not of a fabric but of a creature. Scripture is not an accumulation but a growth. It is not like a building whi...
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