Correct Interpretation of the Bible
By Bush
The progressive elucidation of the Scriptures, whether by the expository labors of critics, the researches of travelers, or the fulfilments of prophecy, may be compared to the gradual rolling away of the morning mist from a splendid landscape. As the sun advances, the shadows retire, and new and interesting features of the scenery are continually opening upon the delighted eye of the spectator. Or it may be said to resemble the slow but momentous process of unfolding the ancient papyri, which the ravages of time and fire have spared among the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Here, as every successive word and letter which can be redeemed from the crisp and crumpling texture of the blackened parchment is noted down with the most scrupulous care, as forming a part of the continuous record, and going to make out its entire sense; so the sense of the Sacred Volume is gradually elicited, item by item, and needs only to be collected and treasured up with equal solicitude, in order to constitute a possession of infinitely more value than the choicest literary relics of antiquity.—Bush.