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Bishop Colenso Answered by His Own Concessions and Admissions [In the Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined]. - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863. Excerpt: ... PART III. TESTIMONIES TO THE HISTORIES OP THE PENTATEUCH, OMITTED BY BISHOP COLENSO. It may be truly affirmed that it has been only at the fringe of the Pentateuch's robe that Dr Colenso has been pulling. Its Great Heart, throbbing with Divine life, has been totally ignored by him. As it was the living and loving heart of Jesus which imparted virtue to the hem of His garment, so it is the Revelations of spiritual truth, forming the living and loving heart of the Pentateuch, that impart a healing virtue to its Narratives, and furnish a guarantee for their historical veracity. There are in the books of Moses utterances embodying a purity and sublimity of thought, and a tenderness and richness of feeling, as far beyond the power of a human intellect to originate, or a human heart to contain, as are the star-spangled heavens beyond the power of a human hand to reach or create. And these Revelations of such thought and feeling do not stand isolated in their celestial grandeur from the historic portions of the books, but infold them in their embrace, like mighty mountains encircling hamlets which nestle in the plains they surround, and between which and every foe these mountains are an impregnable bulwark. The lofty moral statements of the 50 Pentateuch's Revelations Confirm Its Histories. Pentateuch are both a defence unto, and a guarantee for, the truth of its Histories. Thus the Decalogue, so elevated in its spirituality, and so heart-searching in its demands, that it bears on its very forefront the seal of Heaven, is so intimately allied with the Narrative of the Pentateuch, that God prefaces it with an appeal to the truth of the most wonderful portion of these Narratives--" I am the Lord thy God who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt." So that befo...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235738302
- ISBN 13 9781235738302
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages22
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