To understand this, we must consider the natural
element of the word as presented to natural man in the natural realm. The word of
the Lord on tables of stone may be thrown to the ground and broken (Exodus
24:12; Exodus
32:15-16, 19). The word of the Lord in a book can be misplaced, even
in the house of God (2
Kings 22:8-13). The word of the Lord on a scroll might be cut with a
penknife and burned in the fire (Jeremiah
36:21-23).
The word did not cease when it was broken, lost,
burned in its written form. Yet, even the broken will be re-inscribed (Exodus
34:1-4, 27-28). The lost will be found (2
Chronicles 34:15). The burned will be duplicated (Jeremiah
36:27-28).
The word of the Lord will not, shall not, pass
away (Matthew
24:35). The word of the Lord in its purest form exists in the mind of
God, where it is forever (Psalms
119:89). God’s word is just as eternal, just as sure, as God himself!
(Cf. also Psalm
12:6; Psalm
119:160; Isaiah
40:8; Matthew
5:18; John
1:1; 1
Peter 1:23-25.)
[i] “Now to the latter we
answer; that we do not deny, nay we affirm and avow, that the very meanest
translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession, (for
we have seen none of theirs of the whole Bible as yet) containeth the word of
God, nay, is the word of God. As the King’s speech, which he uttereth in
Parliament, being translated into French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin, is still
the King’s speech, though it be not interpreted by every Translator with the
like grace, nor peradventure so fitly for phrase, nor so expressly for sense,
everywhere.” – “An answer to the imputations of our adversaries,” “Translators to
the Reader,” Authorised Version, 1611
[ii] “Transcendent” means “surpassing
all others; preeminent or supreme.”
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