The Text of the Old Testament Considered With a Treatise On Sacred Interpreta
The Text of the Old Testament Considered With a Treatise On Sacred Interpreta
Samuel Davidson
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Arnold were similar. This may be inferred from what the author of the " Phases' of Faith" says respecting him. " It was a novelty to me that Arnold treated these questions as matters of indifference to religion. " The questions referred to are such as the whole human race proceeding from one Adam and Eve in 6000 years, the longevity of the patriarchs, the geology of the Mosaic cosmogony, the account of the deluge, &c. ' To the same effect Mr. Miall, in his excellent work, the " Bases of Belief,... " says : " If it should be found that these faithful witnesses (the evangelists) have delivered their testimony in not wholly unex- ceptionable Greek — or that in some matters, not touching their main object (matters, it may be geographical, ethnological, or philosophical), they are not enlightened above the common standard of their times and station — or that they have adopted habits whether of thought, of speech, or of action, which, perfectly innocent in themselves, might yet be smiled at, as founded in misapprehension, by such as have profited by the lengthened subsequent experience of the world, and by the progress of science — if, in a word, it should appear that the historic writers of the New Testament were really men of the age in which they lived, men of the country in which they were born and educated, men subject to the then limitations of general knowledge, men of in- dividual tendencies, tastes, temperaments, pat^sions, and even prejudices — and if, in transmitting to distant generations, by means of their writings, a perfectly accurate historical portraiture of the Messiah in whom they trusted, and whom they loved unto death, they must be admitted to have so far exemplified the above suppositions as to render the fact cognisable to every diligent student of their works — wherein is the world the worse for this, and in what respect could our reason have wished it otherwise?
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