[433] 'Essayists and Reviewers' would reply, that in the first instance, the supposed inference has no connexion with the premisses:--that in the second, (1) it has to be proved that the person intended in Psalm cx. is CHRIST; and (2) it does not follow, because David calls him "lord," that the person so spoken of is not his "son:"--that in the third instance, 'gods' is used in Psalm lxxxii. of _earthly_ rulers; whereas, when our SAVIOUR called Himself "the SON of GOD," He claimed to be "_of one substance with the FATHER,--GOD of GOD_." [434] St. Matth. xxi. 16. [435] See above, p. 4. SERMON V.[436] * * * * * INTERPRETATION OF HOLY SCRIPTURE.--INSPIRED INTERPRETATION.--THE BIBLE IS NOT TO BE INTERPRETED LIKE ANY OTHER BOOK.--GOD, (NOT MAN,) THE REAL AUTHOR OF THE BIBLE. * * * * * ST. MATTHEW iv. 4. _It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God._ It is impossible to preserve exact method in Sermons like these, uncertain in number, and delivered at irregular intervals. It shall only be stated that, having already spoken at considerable length, of the INSPIRATION of Holy Scripture;--not, one part more, one part less, but every part equally inspired throughout; not general, (whatever the exact notion may be of a book _generally_ inspired,) but particular, by which I mean that _every word_ is none other than the utterance of the Holy Ghost[437]: having, moreover, explained the reasonableness,--(the logical necessity, as it seems,)--of giving such an account of the Bible;--I propose to-day to proceed to the subject of INTERPRETATION. Really, it has become the fashion of a School of unbelief which has lately emerged into infamous notoriety, to deal with both these questions in so insolent a style of dogmatism, that the preacher is compelled to halt _in limine_; and to explain that he begs that no offence may be taken at the account which he has just given of the Bible; for that really he means no more than Bp. Pearson meant when he said that "_the Scripture phrase_" is "_the Language of the HOLY GHOST_[438]:"--that he desires to say no other thing than what _He_ said, by whose Spirit, (as St. Peter declares[439],) the prophets prophesied;--the preacher, I say, wishes to explain that he desires to mean no other thing than our LORD JESUS CHRIST Himself meant, when He spoke of "_every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of GOD_."