Physical Science therefore, (for the last time!)--_all_ the other Sciences,--Moral Science not excepted,--are the handmaids of Theological Science: and Morality, to which we omitted before to assign an office, we have stationed somewhere beneath the footstool, which is before the Throne, of the Most High.--But this day's Sermon,--(and with these words I conclude, sorry to have felt obliged to detain you so long!)--_this_ Day's Sermon has had for its object to remind you, that THE BIBLE is none other than _the voice of Him that sitteth upon the Throne_! Every Book of it,--every Chapter of it,--every Verse of it,--every word of it,--every syllable of it,--(_where_ are we to _stop_?)--every letter of it--is the direct utterance of the Most High!--Πᾶσα γραφὴ θεόπνευστος. "Well spake the HOLY GHOST, by the mouth of" the many blessed Men who wrote it.--The Bible is none other than _the Word of GOD_: not some part of it, more, some part of it, less; but all alike, the utterance of Him who sitteth upon the Throne;--absolute,--faultless,--unerring,--supreme! * * * * * Ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν ἰῶτα ἓν ἢ μίαν κεραίαν οὐ πιστεύω κενὴν εἶναι θείων μαθημάτων. ORIGENES, Comment. in S. Matth. tom. xvi. c. 12. p. 734. Ταῦτά μοι εἴρηται ... πρὸς σύστασιν τοῦ μηδὲν μέχρι συλλαβῆς ἀργόν τι εἶναι τῶν θεοπνεύστων ῥημάτων. BASILIUS, in Hex. Hom. vi. c. 11. tom. i. p. 61 c. Scripturæ quidem perfectæ sunt, quippe a VERBO DEI, et SPIRITU ejus dictæ. IRENÆUS, Contr. Hær. lib. ii. c. xxviii. 2. Μηδεμία ὑπεναντίωσις ἤ ἀτοπία ἐν τοῖς θείοις λόγοις. METHODIUS, Tyrius Episcopus, ap. Routh Reliqq. t. v. p. 351. Ἔστι γὰρ ἐν τοῖς τῶν Γραφῶν ῥήμασιν ὁ Κύριος. ATHANASIUS, ad Marcellinum. Ὅσα ἡ θεία γραφὴ λέγει, τοῦ Πνεύματός εἰσι τοῦ Ἁγίου φωναί. GREGORIUS NYSSEN, Contr. Eunom. Orat. vi. Cedamus igitur et consentiamus auctoritati Sanctæ Scripturæ, quæ nescit falli nec fallere. AUGUSTINUS, De Peccator. Merit. lib. i. c. 22. FOOTNOTES: [330] Preached in Christ-Church Cathedral, 25th Nov. 1860. [331] Πᾶσαι αἱ θεόπνευστοι γραφαί,--as it is worded in the Epistle sent by the Council of Antioch in the case of Paul of Samosata, A.D. 269. (Routh _Reliqq._ iii. 292.) See Middleton _on the Greek Article_, (Rose's ed.) _in loc._ And so, in effect, Wordsworth and Ellicott.--It is right to add that it has been contended that πᾶσα γραφή = "the whole of Scripture." See Lee _on Inspiration_, p. 263, (note.) So Athanasius seems to have taken it: Πᾶσα ἡ καθ' ἡμᾶς γραφὴ, παλαιά τε καὶ καινὴ, θεόπνευστος ἐστι. (_Ep. ad Marcell._ i. 982.)