The Amdamentals. 30 p tr e u a t r h s . to F b o e r q w ui h t a e te co ve n r sis t t h e i n s t s w o- it c h all d e e d fe D ct i i v v i e ne ar e g l u e mm e e n n t t , i i s n , co it rr a e p ct interpretation, if not what the average man would call forgery or falsification. It is, in fact, revolutionary. To accept it the Christian will have to completely readjust his ideas of honor and honesty, of falsehood and misrepresentation. Men used to think that forgery was a crime, and falsification a sin. Pusey, in his great work on Daniel, said that "to write a book under the name of another and to give it out to be his is in any case a f n o e r s g s e ." ry,· ( d P i u sh se o y n , es L t e i c n tu i r t e se s lf on an D d a d n e ie s l t , ru p c a t g iv e e 1 o .) f al B l u t t ru a s c t c w o o r r d t i h n i g t t o er t ia h l e , H an i d gh n e o r t C a rit l i i c t a tl l e p o o f sit i i t on b , el a i l e l v s e o d rt t s o o b f e ps tr e u u e do b n y ym th o e us L m or a d J ce e d su en s t C o h b r j is e t ct H io i n m o se u l g f h , t is to to b b e e ta fo ke u n nd to in it t . he Bible, and no ante Men used to think that inaccuracy would affect reliability and that proven inconsistencies would imperil credibility. But now it appears that there may not only be mistakes and e si r o r n o s r , s a o n n d th m e is p in a t r e t rp o r f e c ta o t p i y o i n s s ts o , n bu t t he fo p r a g r e t ri o es f , a in u t th en o t r i s o , n a a n l d om ye is t , marvelous to say, faith is not to be destroyed, but to be placed on a firmer foundation. ( Sanday, page 122.) They have, according to Briggs, enthroned the Bible in a higher position than ever before. (Briggs, "The Bible, Church and Reason," page 149.) Sanday admits that there is an element in the Pentateuch derived from Moses himself. An elementu! But u he ine ad M ds o , s " a H ic ow fo e u v n e d r a m tio u n ch i w n e th m e ay Pe b n e t l a ie te v u e c t h h , at it th is ere di i ffi s c a ul g t en to lay the finger upon it, and to say with confidence, here Moses himself is speaking." "The strictly Mosaic element in the h P a e p n s t , at t e o uc u h se m t u h s e t m be (t i h n e de v te is r i m on in s at o e f ." Ex " . W 3 e an o d ugh 3 t 3) no w t, ith p o e u rt reserve for Moses himself" (pages 172-174-176). The ordi-
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