Inspiration 55 tecost, for “They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and be gan to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them ut terance” (Acts 2:1, 4). The multitude that heard “marveled, saying, Behold, are not ail these which speak Galileans? And how hear we every man in our own language ? . . . We do hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God” (Acts 2:7, 11).. Paul says : “Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teach- eth” (1 Cor. 2:13), “And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word o f God” (1 Thess. 2:13). And so the Bible uniformly teaches the doctrine of verbal inspiration. It is the Word of God. This is the invariable testimony of the Book itself. It never, in a single instance, says that the thoughts'of the writers were inspired; or, that these writers had a “Concept.” The Scriptures are called “The oracles of God” (Rom. 3 :2 ) ; “The Word, of God” (Luke 8:11) ; “The Word of the Lord” (Acts 13:48); “The Word of life” (Phil. 2:16); “The Word of Christ” (Col. 3:16); “The Word of truth” (Eph. 1:13); “The Word of faith” (Rom. 10:8) ; and, by these and similar statements, do they declare, more than two thousand times, that the Bible is the Word of God—that the words are God-breathed, are inspired (theopneustos). SECOND. What of the Inferential Testimony to the fact of verbal inspiration? I mean by Inferential Testimony that which is assumed by the Bible, and the natural implication belonging to many of its statements. The Bible assumes to be from God in that it meets man face to face with drawn sword and says: “Thou shalt!” and “Thou shalt no t!” and demands immediate, unconditional and irreversible surrender to the authority of heaven, and sub-
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