Fallacies of the Higher Criticism 71 in all his later experiences, and his associations with holy priests and prophets? He was certainly teachable: did God fail to make use of him in further revealing Himself to His people? To deny these Psalms to David on the ground of his limited views of God in his early life, is this not to deny that God made successive revelations of Himself wherever He t f i o o u n n e d d s s u k i i t l a l b o le f c D ha a n v n id el i s n ? th If e , m fu u r s t i h c er o , f w h e is co n n a s t i i d o e n r a th n e d u h n is qu a e g s e (I. Sam. 16 :14-25), this will constitute a presupposition in favor of his interest in sacred song. If, finally, we consider his personal career of danger and deliverance, this will appear as the natural means of awakening in him the spirit of varied religious poetry. His times were much like the Elizabethan period, which ministered unexampled stimulus to the English min F d r . om all this we may turn to the singular verdict of Pro fessor Jordan : "If a man says he cannot see why David could not have written Psalms 51 and 139, you are compelled to reply as politely as possible that if he did write them then any man c si a b n le w ," ri t t h e a a t ny if thi S n h g a ." kes S p o ea a re ls , o w w i e th m h a i y s s " a s y m , " a a ll s L po a l t i i t n ely an a d s p l o es s s Greek," did write his incomparable dramas, "then any man can write anything"u; that if tary education, did write his g D r i e c a k t e n n o s, ve w ls i , th "t h h i e s n m an er y e m e a le n m c e a n n write anything" ; and that if ing, did write his Gettysburg L a i d n d c r o e l s n s , , w "t h h o en ha a d ny no m e a a n rl c y an sc w ho r o it le anything." SEVENTH FALLACYI: DEUTERONOMY NOT WRITTEN BY MOSES. VII. One of the fixed points of the higher criticism is its theory of the origin of Deuteronomy. In I. Kings 22 we have the history of the finding of the book of the law in the temple, which was being repaired. Now the higher critics present this finding, not as the discovery of an ancient docu-
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