Reconstruction of Biblical Theories; Or, Biblical Science Improved in Its History, Chronology, and Interpretation, and Relieved from Traditionary Errors and Unwarrantable Hypotheses (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: stores, which are yet concealed, and the existence of which is not usually suspected. A knowledge of the late date of the first part of the Bible, and the interpretation of the Pentateuch and earlier Prophets to the end of 2 Kings, as a single work of the time of Ezra, are of vast importance to Christendom, and ought to receive attention. It ought also to be known that no erroneous interpretation of the Bible can possibly enhance its value; its highest usefulness is dependent on its most exact interpretation. 9. To interpret the Bible correctly, its different works and documents must be carefully discriminated, and their age and character determined. Any negligence or inadvertence in this department of our inquiries, is sure to vitiate our conclusions, and lead to interminable errors. For want of this discrimination, Christianity has suffered greatly in times past, and is still suffering; and to discriminate accurately between the allegorical and the literal, in the sacred writings, is perhaps the great problem of the age. Its solution will be the happy precursor of another vast stride in the onward progress of Christianity, and in the religious, moral, intellectual, and physical culture of the race. CHAPTER IV. The name Jehovah; its History and ancient Pronunciation. 1. The name of the supreme God of the Jews appears to us, in the Scriptures, only by its representatives. We find this first in Gen. 2: 4, in the following connection: These are the birth records of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah of gods created them. The passage is rendered in the Septuagint, This is the book of the generation of heaven and earth, when it was made, on the day that Kurios the God made the heaven and the earth. The Lord God of the common English...