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... inspiration ; but , on the other hand , it needed caution , while freely exhibiting its literary characteristics , not to present the Bible as merely a literary production . I have striven to use this caution ; so that although I do not ...
... inspiration ; but , on the other hand , it needed caution , while freely exhibiting its literary characteristics , not to present the Bible as merely a literary production . I have striven to use this caution ; so that although I do not ...
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... inspiration of the Bible . This disinclination which some avow to hear the sacred volume spoken of as a literary production , as seems to us , is calculated to do it the great injustice of prejudicing against it such as are of literary ...
... inspiration of the Bible . This disinclination which some avow to hear the sacred volume spoken of as a literary production , as seems to us , is calculated to do it the great injustice of prejudicing against it such as are of literary ...
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... inspiration , and shall find , as he is sure to do , that each utterance of the sacred oracle gives full expression to these conceptions , might be said to be the parent voice of which they are the feeble though articu- late echo , it ...
... inspiration , and shall find , as he is sure to do , that each utterance of the sacred oracle gives full expression to these conceptions , might be said to be the parent voice of which they are the feeble though articu- late echo , it ...
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... inspired prophets are made redolent with the voice of song , as if purposely to woo the approach of that faculty ... inspiration is of the most gorgeous description . Now from this , two inferences appear to be inevitable . First , that ...
... inspired prophets are made redolent with the voice of song , as if purposely to woo the approach of that faculty ... inspiration is of the most gorgeous description . Now from this , two inferences appear to be inevitable . First , that ...
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... inspired in these writers . Second , if God availed himself of the imagina- tive faculty of the writers in the composition of the Scriptures , he certainly must have intended the same faculty to be used in the perusal of them . For just ...
... inspired in these writers . Second , if God availed himself of the imagina- tive faculty of the writers in the composition of the Scriptures , he certainly must have intended the same faculty to be used in the perusal of them . For just ...
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