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It should be added that there is, of course, no question of partial knowledge after the resurrection, when our Lord was manifestly free from all limitations of earthly condi tions. Yet it was after His resurrection also that He set His seal to the Old Testament (Luke 24:44). One question seems to remain, and yet we almost shrink from stating it—Was our Lord capable and competent in this matter? When He said, “ Moses wrote of Me,” did He mean what He said? When in one passage He speaks of the law of Moses, and immediately after calls it the Word of God, is not this a testimony at once to the human in strument and the Divine authority? (Mark 7:10 and 13; Mark 12:'26; with Matt. 22:31). We conclude that our Lord’s positive statements on the subject of the Old Testa ment are not to be rejected without charging him with error. If,: on these points, on which we can test and verify Him, we find that He is not reliable, what real comfort can we have in accepting His higher teaching, where verifica tion is impossible? This is our last and chief reason for demurring to the modern critical views of the Old Testament. As Professor Franz Delitzsch once said, we consider the Old Testament in the light of Easter day, and we accept it on the authority of Him Who by the resurrection was “ declared to be the Son of God with power.” We believe we are on absolutely safe ground when we say that what the Old Testament was to our Lord, it must be and shall be to us. Let us, therefore, occupy mind, heart and will with Christ and the Bible, for while thus occupied, we shall he in the fortress of an “ impregnable rock”— one upon which the storms will heat in vain; one in which there will be shelter and satisfaction for; all who abide.
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questions of authorship can be shown to involve the whole character of Judaism and its relation to Christ, we cannot he satisfied with a merely literary discussion of them.” Nor can this witness to the Old Testament be met by as serting that the limitation of our Lord’s earthly life kept Him within current views of the Old Testament which need not have been true views. This statement ignores the es sential force of our Lord’s personal claim as “ the Word.” Was Jesus’ Knowledge Limited On more than one occasion our Lord claimed to speak from God, and that everything He said had the Divine war rant. Let us notice carefully what this involves. It is sometimes said that our Lord’s knowledge was limited, and that He lived here as Man, not as God. Suppose we grant this for argument’s sake. Very well; as Man He lived in God and on God, and He claimed that everything He said and did was from God and through God. If, then, the limitations were from God, so also were the utterances; and, as God’s warrant was claimed for every one of these, they are therefore Divine and infallible (John 5:19; 5:30; 7:16; 8:26; 12:49.; 14:10; 14:24; 17:8). Even though we grant to the full a theory that will compel us to accept a temporary disuse or non-use of the functions of Deity in the Person of our Lord, yet the words actually uttered as Man are claimed to he from God,‘ and therefore we hold them to he infallible. W e: rest, therefore, upon our Lord’s personal claim to say all and do all by the Father, from the Father, for the Father.
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