Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume IMackintosh, Charles Henry
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Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume I
Mackintosh, Charles Henry
Bible. Deuteronomy -- Commentaries
Does this appear too strong for the reader? Does he believe that we
can listen, for a moment, to the infidel denier of Moses, and yet
believe in the inspiration of the psalms, the prophets, and the New
Testament? If he does, let him be well assured he is under the power
of a fatal delusion. Let him take such passages as the following, and
ask himself, What do they mean, and what is wrapped up in them? Our
Lord, in speaking to the Jews--who, by the way, would not have agreed
with a Christian bishop in denying the authenticity of Moses--says,
"Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that
accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses,
ye would have believed Me; for he wrote of Me. But if ye believe not
his writings, how shall ye believe My words?" (John v. 45-47.)
Think of this: The man that does not believe in the writings of
Moses--does not receive every line of his as divinely inspired, does
not believe in Christ's words, and therefore cannot have any divinely
wrought faith in Christ Himself--cannot be a Christian at all. This
makes it a very serious matter for any one to deny the divine
inspiration of the Pentateuch, and equally serious for any one to
listen to him or sympathize with him. It is all very well to talk of
Christian charity and liberality of spirit; but we have yet to learn
that it is charity or liberality to sanction, in any way, a man who
has the audacity to sweep from beneath our feet the very foundations
of our faith. To speak of him as a Christian bishop, or a Christian
minister of any kind, is only to make the matter a thousand times
worse. We can understand a Voltaire or a Paine attacking the Bible--we
do not look for any thing else from them; but when those who assume to
be the recognized and ordained ministers of religion, and the
guardians of the faith of God's elect--those who consider themselves
alone entitled to teach and preach Jesus Christ, and feed and tend the
Church of God--when they actually call in question the inspiration of
the five books of Moses, may we not well ask, Where are we? What has
the professing church come to?
But let us take another passage. It is the powerful appeal of the
risen Saviour to the two bewildered disciples on their way to
Emmaus--"'O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets
have spoken; ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to
enter into His glory?' And _beginning at Moses_ and all the prophets,
He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning
Himself." And again, to the eleven and others with them, He says,
"These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you,
that all things must be fulfilled, which were written _in the law of_
_Moses_, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning Me." (Luke
xxiv. 25-27, 44.)
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