“Higher Criticism”, which seeks to establish questions of date and authorship, alleges that “the Hebrew traditions respecting Israel’s origins and early history were probably first cast into a written form in the 10th or 9th c. B.C., by a Prophet …
The words of Christ, “Swear not at all” (Matt. 5, 34) and of James, “But above all things, my brethren, swear not” (James 5, 12) appear to answer the question in the negative; yet to some there is, at least, …
The Jewish Chronicle, we remember, charged the Christian with error for turning an abstraction poetically termed the adversary satan into a real being, and an investigation of the Old Testament references appeared to substantiate the view of our contemporary.
The …
The recent discovery in Egypt of a New Testament manuscript earlier in date than any hitherto known, has raised once again questions concerning the nature and status of the mysterious “Book of Enoch” because that book is included in the …
To be of “an enquiring turn of mind” is both natural and good. It was a quality implanted in unspoiled human nature, for the fact that the fruit of the forbidden tree was to be “desired to make one wise” …
The supreme value of mental pictures as aids to memory and clear understanding, is so well recognized to-day, as to be regarded as an accepted principle. Like most principles, it has no claim to novelty. Like many, it has in …
The word Uphaz occurs in Jeremiah 10:9, where the prophet in denouncing idolatry refers to the use of thin plates of silver and “gold from Uphaz” for the covering of images of wood ; and in Daniel …
“Where wast thou when ” laid the foundations of the earth’?
Declare if thou hast understanding Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
Or who stretched …