The Fundamentals - 1917: Vol.1

54 The Fundamentals life is, as Bishop Warburton ably argued, evidence of an early date and of a peculiar Divine effort to guard the Israelites against the contamination of Egyptian ideas upon the subject. 6. The omission of the hen from the lists of clean and unclean birds is incredible if these lists were made late in t d h u e ce n d at f i r o o n m 's I h n is d t i o a r . y after that domestic fowl had been intro­ 7. As Rev. A. C. Robinson showed in Volume VII of this s ti e o r n ies in it th i e s P in en cr t e a d te ib u l c e h t o h f at th t e he e r x e is s t h e o n u ce ld of ha J v e e ru b sa ee le n m n , o or in o t f im th a e use of music in the liturgy, nor any use of the phrase, "Lord of Hosts," unless the compilation had been completed before the time of David. 8. The subordination of the miraculous elements in the mPe e n n t t a i t s eu s c u h ch t a o s t c h o e ul c d ri b t e ica o l bt j a u i n ne ct d u o re n s ly in in t g h e e nu n i a n t e io h n i ' s s to d ry ev . elop­ 9. The whole representation conforms to the true law of t: h h r e is s r t e o e n n r t i l c i r g a e h l s t i d e d n e e v e n e d t l o d f p o i m r r e c e c e n t s l t , y . b f u r N t om t a h t r i o o o n n u s g h h i d g o t h h n o e o r s t t b r y r u i g s c e g o l n e b t s y ac o t v f i w r g t i r u t e h e at o o t f le h a e who have already been enlightened. The defender of the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch has no occasion to quail in presence of the critics who deny t le h n a g t e au t t h h e o i r r sh s i c p ho a l n a d rs d h i i s p c , re d d e i n t y its th h e i i s r to c r o y n . cl Hus e io m ns a , y r b e o s l e d n ly t c t h h a ei l r c a c a e r p t r e o t d e g d a h n i i s t c t . e o , r T a ic n h a d o l s e h e v o w i l d d h e o n o n c n e t o o w w h h a i i c s t h s c e s o c u n o ffi fi n d c d e e d n h c a f e n o d i r n a t h t r h e o e s p e w o w p e u l h l l o a a r u fi iz t r i h s n t e g n a t i c i n periodicals, Sunday School lessons, and volumes of greater or less pretentions the errors of these critics must answer to their consciences as best they can, but they should be made to feel that they assume a heavy responsibility in putting themselves forward as leaders of the blind when they themselves are not able to see. in d rs

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