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Monday, January 20, 2025

Never forget

“We should never forget, that when we are explaining any expression of Scripture, we are treating what are the very words of the Holy Ghost, as much as if they had been spoken to us by a voice from heaven. The profane rashness of many critics is much emboldened by the circumstances that men have been employed as the instruments of the Almighty in communicating his revelation. A sort of modified inspiration only is granted to the Scriptures, and they are often treated as the words merely of those who were employed as the penmen. When God is thus kept out of sight, little ceremony is used with the words of the Apostles. That profound reverence and awe with which the Scriptures ought to be read and handled, are in many instances too little exemplified.”

Robert Haldane, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans (Volume I, New Edition Much Enlarged, Edinburgh: William Whyte & Co., 1842). p. 11

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Robert Haldane said it well.
E. T. Chapman

R. L. Vaughn said...

Amen, brother!