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Lünemann, will be made accessible to English students by Professor THAYER, and published shortly by DRAPER & HALLIDAY. BOSTON, July, 1867. THE BIBLIOTHECA SACRA. EDITED BY EDWARDS A. PARK AND SAMUEL H. TAYLOR. WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF PRESIDENT SEARS AND PROF. MEAD. OCTOBER, 1867. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY W. H. HALLIDAY & CO. ANDOVER: WARREN F. DRAPER. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Warren F. Draper, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. THE BIBLIOTHECA SACRA. ARTICLE I. REVELATION AND INSPIRATION. BY REV. E. P. BARROWS, D.D., LATELY PROFESSOR OF HEBREW LITERATURE. IN ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. No. I. It is proposed to discuss, in a series of Articles, the related subjects of Revelation and Inspiration, not so much in their details as in their fundamental underlying principles, and with: special reference to the errors of modern times. The Terms defined and distinguished. It is necessary, at the outset, to have a clear idea of the meaning of these several terms. This will give at once their relation to each other, and their difference. Revelation (Latin, revelatio, from revelo, to unveil, throw back the veil; Greek, ȧπоkáλvis, from ȧπокаλúπтw, to uncover, lift off the cover) properly signifies the act of unvailing, and so disclosing a person or thing that was before hidden. So the scriptures speak of "the revelation of the righteous judgment of God";1 and of "the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ." Then, by an easy transition, the word is 1 Rom. ii. 5, and so often. 21 Cor. i. 7; 2 Thess. i. 7; 1 Peter i. 7 13. But in 1 Cor. i..7 our Version uses the word coming, and in 1 Peter i. 7 the word appearing. VOL. XXIV. No. 96.-OCTOBER, 1867. 75 applied to the truth itself which is revealed. Of this latter usage we have some examples in the New Testament. "When ye come together," says the apostle, "every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation," where "a revelation " 1 is manifestly something revealed by God's Spirit. So when he speaks of "visions and revelations of the Lord," and of "the abundance of the revelations," 3 the word comprehends the things made known to him by the act of revelation. So also the last book of the New Testament is called "the revelation of Jesus Christ," as containing the future events revealed by him. In this secondary sense the word" revelation" is exceedingly common in theological usage. In neither its primary nor its secondary usage does the word "revelation" refer to the manner of the disclosure. It insists only upon the fact that it is something that was before hidden. It is therefore, as theologians say, eminently objective. It directs attention to something existing without the mind, which is in some way uncovered to its view. The agent of revelation may be man ("Unto thee have I revealed my cause, ,"5 Heb., Gr. 'aπekáλva), but in New Testament usage is exclusively God; and it is with divine revelation alone that we are now concerned. It is further to be noticed that the scriptures do not employ the word "revelation," or its corresponding verb, of truths known to man by the light of nature, although they represent God as the author of such light. Instead of this they use other terms, as, "God hath manifested it unto them "6 (èpavéρwoe, a word which is also used of supernatural manifestation). They restrict the words reveal and revelation to disclosures which God makes to men by his immediate interposition, that is, in a supernatural way. Inspiration (Latin, inspiratio, from inspiro, to breathe into), 11 Cor. xiv. 26. 8 2 Cor. xii. 7. 2 2 Cor. xii. 1. 4 Rev. i. 1. Jer. xi. 20; compare Ecclesiasticus xlii. 1 (Eng. version, xli. 23) Rom. i. 19. |