 Educated persons are beginning to ask, not what Scripture may be made to mean, but what it does. And it is no exaggeration to say, that he who, in the present state of knowledge, will confine himself to the plain meaning of words and the study of their...  Things to Think of - Page 8by Henry Allen Sawtelle - 1873 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1860 - 506 pages
...ask, not what Scripture may be made to mean, but what it does. And it is no exaggeration to say, that he who, in the present state of knowledge, will confine...controversial writers of former ages put together. Such a history would be of great value to philosophy as well as to theology : it would be the history... | |
 | 1860 - 860 pages
...ask not what Scripture may be made to mean, but what it does. And it is no exaggeration to say that he who in the present state of knowledge will confine...New Testament, than all the controversial writers or former ages put together.' For pur own part, we believe that the importance of a text may generally... | |
 | 1861 - 878 pages
...ventures to promise us certain admirable results. "It is no exaggeration," he assures us, "to say that he who in the present state of knowledge will confine...controversial writers of former ages put together." It is true that the prima facie simplicity of this rule tends to disappear, and the attainment of this... | |
 | James Fendall - 1861 - 108 pages
...others. This is intimated in many passages. Thus in pp. 340, 341, "And it is no exaggeration to say that he who in the present state of knowledge will confine...controversial writers of former ages put together ;" and in p. 384, " Any one who, instead of burying himself in the pages of the commentators, would... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1861 - 584 pages
...(!), not what Scripture may be made to mean, but what it docs. And it is no exaggeration to say that he who in the present state of knowledge will confine...controversial writers of former ages put together" (pp. 340-1.) This might be tolerated perhaps, in the self-constituted oracle of a Mechanics' Institute;... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1862 - 388 pages
...made to mean, but what it does. And it is no exaggeration to say that he who in the present sj;ate of knowledge will confine himself to the plain meaning...controversial writers of former ages put together. Such a history would be of great value to philosophy as well as to theology. It would oe the history... | |
 | William Thomson, William Thomson (Abp. of York) - 1862 - 552 pages
...wholly to trust to ourselves, and are cheered by the assurance that " if we will only confine ourselves to the plain meaning of words and the study of their context," we may beneficially dispense with all the expository labours of the past or of the present. Such is... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1865 - 544 pages
...ask, not what Scripture may be made to mean, but what it does. And it is no exaggeration to say that he who in the present state of knowledge will confine...meaning of words and the study of their context may kuow more of the original spirit and intention of the authors of the New Testament than all the controversial... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1874 - 522 pages
...ask, not what Scripture may be made to mean, but what it does. And it is no exaggeration to say, that he who, in the present state of knowledge, will confine...controversial writers of former ages put together. Such a history would be of great value to philosophy as well as to theology: it would be the history... | |
 | Percy Gardner - 1901 - 302 pages
...wrote Jowett,1 " obscures as well as illustrates ; it heaps up chaff when j there is no more wheat." " He who, in the present state of knowledge, will confine himself to the plain meanings of words and the study of their context, may know more of the original spirit and intention... | |
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