The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings — John Shaqi
The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of KingsFarrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
Religion
The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings
Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
Bible. Kings, 1st -- Commentaries
"Es bleibt dabei, das beste Lesen der Bibel, dieses Göttlichen
Buchs, ist _menschlich_. Ich nehme dies Wort im weitesten Umfang
und in der andringendsten Bedeutung. Menschlich muss man die
Bibel lesen: denn sie ist ein Buch durch Menschen für Menschen
geschrieben; menschlich ist die Sprache, menschlich die äussern
Hülfsmittel, mit denen sie geschrieben und aufbehalten ist.... Es
darf also sicher geglaubt werden: je humaner (im besten Sinn des
Worts) man das Wort Gottes liest, desto näher kommt man dem Zweck
seines Urhebers, welcher Menschen zu seinem Bilde schuf ... und
für uns menschlich handelt."--HERDER.
CHAPTER I.
_THE HIGHER CRITICISM._
"God shows all things in the slow history of their
ripening."--GEORGE ELIOT.
God has given us many Bibles. The book which we call the Bible
consists of a series of books, and its name represents the Greek
plural τὰ Βίβλια. It is not so much a book, as the extant fragments
of a literature, which grew up during many centuries. Supreme as is
the importance of this "Book of God," it was never meant to be the
sole teacher of mankind. We mistake its purpose, we misapply its
revelation, when we use it to exclude the other sources of religious
knowledge. It is supremely profitable for our instruction, but, so
far from being designed to absorb our exclusive attention, its work
is to stimulate the eagerness with which, by its aid, we are able to
learn from all other sources the will of God towards men.
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