122 The Fundamentals. quote the standard text-book of the cult) is that the Lord of Glory "held the current Jewish notions respecting the divine authority and revelation of the Old Testament." But even if l t i h s i h s e c d o , n i c n lu st s e io a n d - o a f s a p ff o o rt r e d n in to g us an as e i s t c i a s p p e ro f f r a o n m e-- t c he ou d ld ile b m e m es a tab in which the Higher Criticism involves its votaries, i t would only serve to make that dilemma more hopeless and more terrible. For what chiefly concerns us is not that, ex. hyp., the Lord's doctrinal teaching was false, but that in unequivocal terms, and with extreme solemnity, He declared again and again that His teaching was not His own but His Father's, and that the very words in which He conveyed it were God-given. ceed A ing fe s w of ye a ar c s er a ta g i o n t C h h e ic d a e g v o ou " t pr w o e p r h e et d ," ist w re h s o se c d la b im y ed the di p v r in o e a in u g th a or s i e ty ve f r o er r h es is tim lu a cu te b o ra f ti t o h n e s. ma K n i a n n d d ly h d i i s sp p o la s t e f d or p m eo u p t le te , r r a e n je c c e t s , t r r e a g y ar u d s ed in h t i o m f m or e m re in ly g a a s a sim pr il o a f r a ly ne in f d o u o l l g . en S t ha es ll tim th a e te cr o it f ics -be My pen refuses to complete the sentence! And will it be believed that the only scriptural basis offered us for this astounding position is a verse in Qne of the Gospels and a word in one of the Epistles ! Passing strange i t is that men who handle Holy Scripture with such freedom when it c m o o n u fl s ic i t m s p w o i r t t h an th ce eir to "a a s n su is r o e l d at r e e d su v l e ts r " se sh o o r u a ld si a n t g ta le ch w s o u r c d h , w en h o e r n it can be misused to support them. The verse is Mark 13 :32, where the Lord says, with reference to His coming again: "Of that day and hour knoweth no one ; no, not the angels which l a o r w e s in im he m a e v d e i n a , te n l e y ith u e p r on the th S e o w n, o b r u d t su: th " e H F e a a t v h e e n r." and Bu ea t r t t h h is s f h o a l l l pass away, but My words shall not pass away." THE WORDS OF GOD. The Lord's words were not "inspired"u; they were the words of God in a still higher sense. "The people were astonished
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