A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Leviticus: With a New Translation

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In the present state of man, human reason, if without bias and without revelation, would arrive at three inevitable conclusions: I am guilty, God is holy, and therefore I am doomed to die. It would be easy to put these three propositions into the form of a regular syllogism, of which the last would be the legitimate conclusion. They contain the sum of all natural theology; and it is obvious that they constitute a philosophy of despair.
There is a whole class of the most important truths involved in these few statements. It is well to bring some of these distinctly before the mind. That human reason is under a manifold bias, different in different men and circumstances, and extremely difficult to escape, is a proposition that will not be denied by any one at all conversant with the history of opinion in philosophy and religion. The degree in which certain threads of pure revelation have been woven into the many-figured texture of the imagination, and have influenced the course of reason on questions of the highest moment to man, has not been so fully considered or freely conceded; and it is impossible here to do more than indicate this important point.
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