The Elements of the Higher CriticismFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1895 - 255 pages |
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Page 24 - The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Page 166 - Sanctification of the sinner. 8. The Immortality of the Soul, the Resurrection of the Body, the Judgment of the World by our Lord Jesus Christ, with the Eternal Blessedness of the Righteous, and the Eternal Punishment of the Wicked. 9. The Divine institution of the Christian Ministry, and the obligation and perpetuity of the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Page 97 - ... the different elements in a narrative which cannot be attained by mere internal evidence. In all writings, but especially in the writings of an age when criticism was unknown, there will be repetitions, contradictions, inconsistencies and diversities of style which do not necessarily indicate different authorship or dates.
Page 206 - Israel about 800 BC 2. A writer designated as E, Elohist, or Ephraemite prophetic historian, wrote a similar work some fifty years later, or about 750 BC These two were used separately for a time, but were fused together into JE by a redactor, at the end of the seventh century. 3. A writer of a different character wrote a book constituting the main portion of our present Deuteronomy during the reign of Josiah, or a short time before 621 BC This writer is designated as D. To...
Page 166 - Scriptures ; the right and duty of private judgment ; the Unity of the Godhead, and the Trinity of persons therein ; the utter depravity of human nature in consequence of the fall ; the Incarnation of the Son of God, His...
Page 206 - ... at the end of the seventh century. 3. A writer of a different character wrote a book constituting the main portion of our present Deuteronomy during the reign of Josiah, or a short time before 621 BC This writer is designated as D. To this work were added an introduction and appendix, and with those accretions it was united with JE by a second redactor, constituting JED. 4. Contemporaneously with Ezekiel the ritual law began to be reduced to writing. It first appeared in three parallel forms....
Page 205 - ... Wellhausen, and by many others. The results presented by this, the now reigning school of higher critics, are stated thus by Zenas, in his excellent book on the higher criticism: "The credible recorded history of Israel dates from the days of Samuel. With this prophet begins, also, the crystallization of the religion of Israel into its present form. The process thus begun continues through centuries. The Hexateuch is a composite work, whose origin and history may be traced in four distinct stages:...
Page 166 - God, his atonement for sinners, and his mediatorial intercession and reign; the work of the Holy Spirit in the regeneration and sanctification of the sinner; the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, the...
Page 91 - Charlemagne had endeavoured to elevate and civilise his subjects. Before the close of the century in which he died the whole body of his laws had fallen into utter disuse throughout the whole extent of his Gallic dominions. They who have studied the charters, laws, and chronicles of the kter Carlovingian princes most diligently are unanimous in declaring that they indicate either an absolute ignorance, or an entire forgetfulness of the legislation of Charlemagne
Page 120 - A case scarcely three feet square enclosed all that remained, not only of the great city, Nineveh, but of Babylon itself...