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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 16, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 48.

Dr. Hodge on Bible Inspiration

By Editor

THIS is what Dr. Hodge says of the inspiration of the Bible:—

"Inspiration does not suppose that the words and phrases written under its influence are the best possible to express the truth, but only that they are an adequate expression of the truth. Other words and phrases might be equally adequate, might furnish a clearer, more exact, and therefore better expression."

If "other words and phrases" "furnish a clearer, more exact, and better expression of truth," why were they not used by the Holy Spirit; for it is the Holy Spirit which spake through the prophets and writers of the Scriptures, as asserted and reasserted by Holy Writ. And who is to judge as to whether the mind of God is more clearly expressed or not in the altered wording? Who knoweth the mind of the Spirit of God that he may instruct him?