The Work of the Holy Spirit

for them. Every feature of it had a binding force for them. On the contrary, we do not cir- cumcise our boys, but baptize our ch ...

operations.^2 He could no more have come to Athens or Rome than to China or India. No one there could have understood Him, or ha ...

56 Fourth Chapter. The Holy Scripture of the Old Testament Fourth Chapter. The Holy Scripture of the Old Testament Fourth Chapte ...

XII. The Holy Scripture “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correcti ...

The difference between divine and human life gives Scripture its uniqueness and pre- cludes antagonism between its letter and it ...

He regenerates us by the Word. The mode of this operation will be discussed later on; let it suffice here to say that the operat ...

60 XIII. The Scripture a Necessity “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through ...

should speak to our consciousness in a Word, i.e., in a Scripture. And this is the work of Holy Scripture. Our thought-world is ...

will be born. First, new life originated by forming Eve from Adam’s rib; then, by the union of man and woman. So also here. At f ...

64 But notwithstanding differences, the fact remains that the Holy Spirit mastered the problem of bringing to man lost in sin, b ...

65 XIV. The Revelation to Which the Scripture of the Old Testament Owes Its Existence. “O Lord,... Thou art stronger than I, and ...

The judgment of the flood had completely changed former relations, had caused a new generation to arise, and perhaps had changed ...

then, during the time of the judges; finally, in the Exile. Yet it can not die, for it carries in its bosom the hope of the prom ...

To work this faith in the hearts of men who were to perform these miracles was the Holy Spirit’s first task. His second was to q ...

70 XV. The Revelation of the Old Testament in Writing. “Then I said, I will not speak any more in His Name. But His word was in ...

to tolerate a theology that starts from such premises. It annihilates the authority of the Scripture. Altho commended by the Eth ...

of the dialect of a certain period; of derivation of words, as in the changing of names, as in the case of Abraham and Sarah. Th ...

74 XVI. Inspiration “And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things saith He that hath the seven Spirits of God. ...

and sneer at the written Word, consider it. On the contrary, it is great and glorious—one of the mighty factors whereby God keep ...

manner, by a miracle, to prophets and apostles. But “inspiration,” wholly distinct from these, is that special and unique operat ...