The Expositor (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE REVISED VfiRSIOtf OF TITE OLD TESTAMENT. 57 It was because I saw the living Christ, and " heard the words of His mouth," and, I beseech you, listen to no words which make His dominion less sovereign, and His sole and all sufficient work on the cross less mighty as the only power that knits earth to heaven. So the sum of this whole matter is?abide in Christ. Let us root and ground our lives and characters in Him, and then God's inmost desire will be gratified in regard to us, and He will bring even us stainless and blameless into the blaze of His presence. There we shall all have to stand, and let that all penetrating light search us through and through. How do we expect to be then "found of Him )n peace, without spot and blameless " ? There is but one way?to live in constant exercise of faith in Christ, and grip Him so close and sure that the world, the flesh and the devil cannot make us loosen our fingers. Then He will hold us up, and His great purpose, which brought Him to earth, and nailed Him to the cross, will be fulfilled in us, and at last, we shall lift up voices of wondering praise " to Him who is able to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy." Alexander Maclaeen. THE REVISED VERSION OF THE OLD TESTA- MENT. A CRITICAL ESTIMATE. First Paper. A Noted judicial dictum lately vested the censorship of literature and art in the general British public. We think the modern tribunal is likely to find far more "artistic merit" in the O.T.1 Eevisers than in their confreres of theNew Dispensation. The Hebrew text has been left in its original state of questionable integrity. Obscure passages for the most part remain as unintelligible as the lover of " that sweet word Mesopotamia" can desire. The alter...