THE OLD TESTAMENT by Max Muller

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1900

THE OLD TESTAMENT.

By Max Muller

How shall I describe to you what I found in the Old Testament? I had not read it for many years, and was prejudiced against it before I took it in hand. The light which struck Paul with blindness on his way to Damascus was not more strange, more surprising to him than it was to me when I suddenly discovered the fulfilment of all hopes, the highest perfection of philosophy, the explanation of all the revelations, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world. I saw religion appear at the moment most favorable to its appearance and in a manner most adapted to its acceptance. The whole world seemed to be ordered for the sole purpose of furthering the religion of the Redeemer, and if this religion is not divine, I understand nothing at all. I have read no books on the subject, but in all my studies of the ancient times I have always felt the want of something, and it was not till I knew our Lord that all was clear to me. With Him there is nothing I am not able to solve.—Max Muller.