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Page 13
... understanding and judgment of none can be satisfied . That must always be a wavering and uncertain state of mind , which follows the adoption of such views ; and the faith , which is connected with them , must be feeble , tottering ...
... understanding and judgment of none can be satisfied . That must always be a wavering and uncertain state of mind , which follows the adoption of such views ; and the faith , which is connected with them , must be feeble , tottering ...
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... understand what he commu- nicates ? Independently of the disputed question before us , no man on earth would hesitate a moment as to the answer which he must give . A revelation must be intelligible , or it is no revelation . It must be ...
... understand what he commu- nicates ? Independently of the disputed question before us , no man on earth would hesitate a moment as to the answer which he must give . A revelation must be intelligible , or it is no revelation . It must be ...
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... understand what had already been communicated . Nothing then could be gained by such a Bible as the case before us supposes . We must , therefore , either concede that the usual laws of language are to be applied to the Bible , or else ...
... understand what had already been communicated . Nothing then could be gained by such a Bible as the case before us supposes . We must , therefore , either concede that the usual laws of language are to be applied to the Bible , or else ...
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... understanding of some portions of the Bible . What is true of other books must , in the way of analogy , be true of the Bible also . We do not expect any one fully to understand Milton's Paradise Lost , who has little or nothing of a ...
... understanding of some portions of the Bible . What is true of other books must , in the way of analogy , be true of the Bible also . We do not expect any one fully to understand Milton's Paradise Lost , who has little or nothing of a ...
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... understands Hebrew as well as Cocceius did , ( and truly he was no ordinary adept ) , may make the first chapter of the first book of Chronicles as edifying as the 19th Psalm , or equally didactic with the Sermon on the Mount . In the ...
... understands Hebrew as well as Cocceius did , ( and truly he was no ordinary adept ) , may make the first chapter of the first book of Chronicles as edifying as the 19th Psalm , or equally didactic with the Sermon on the Mount . In the ...
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