Gospel Difficulties

then be so unreasonable to expect that every person of ordinary intelligence, whether he be constrained to act upon the teaching of the Gospels or not, would yet be fain to admit that-apart from all that has been so universally recognized as giving to them their unrivalled beauty and sublimity-apart from the multitudinous evidences of their being something other than the unassisted handiwork of man-even the very phenomena, which have been most often urged against their Divine Authorship, do in fact constitute an abounding evidence of its reality, testifying in no uncertain manner to a design, the conception of which is as alien to the ideas, as the execution of it would be beyond the powers, even of the greatest master minds of which the literary history of the world has ever had cognizance.

I am glad to take this opportunity of expressing my sincere thanks to the Authorities of the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses for their great kindness in allowing me to make such full use of the Revised Version of the Gospels, in illustrating the views here put forward.

Any one who may yet entertain the very old, but now too generally old-fashioned belief, that, as anything which falls short of absolute truthfulness is untruth, the Inspiration of Holy Scripture must extend even to the very turn of every phrase, will readily understand that the above is not intended to be a mere formal acknowledgement, and that it is only the fear lest the doing so should seem to savour of presumption that prevents my expressing the same sense of obligation to those whose prolonged labours have given to the English speaking world so rich an inheritance as the Revised Version represents.

KE.

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