The Bible hand-book- an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture (1883) (14592932958)
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Identifier: biblehandbookint00angu_1 (find matches)
Title: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Angus, Joseph, 1816-1902 Hoyt, F. S. (Francis Southack), 1822-1912 Madden, Frederic W. (Frederic William)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Fagan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress
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Plough of Modern Palestine. (See also page opposite 256.)
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CHAPTER II ON THE AUTHENTICITY AND AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE. This reverence have I learnt to give to those books of Scriptureonly which are called canonical. Others I so read that I think notanvthing to be true because they so thought it, but because they wereable to persuade me either by those canonical authors, or by some pro-bable reason that it did not swerve from truth.—Augustine, Ep. 19:died 430. If any of these books were disputed at first, but on examinationwere admitted, they are confirmed by their trial.—Gamblers MoralEvidence. If those facts (on the origin, nature, and progress of the Christianreligion) are not therefore established, nothing in the history of man-kind can be believed.—Chief Justice Bushe. Sec. 1. Scripture Claims to be Regarded as an InspiredTeacher, and as the only Inspired Teacher. 135. In proving the genuineness of the books of Scripture,nothing has been said of their Divine authority. mi i t • • i n r Authority They have come to us as their writ