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THE ESSAI 8 AND REVIEWS.

The following is the eighth of a series of Dis-
courses, delivered at Christ Church, New Road, by
the Rev. Robert Ainslie, on Saturday last :

ON THE INTERPRETATION OF_ SCRIPTURE.
Luke xxiv., 45--" Then opened he the understanding to
understand the Scriptures.

At the time that Jesus is said to have done this, not
a line of the New Testament was written. It was towards
the close of the day after a walk from Jerusalem to Emmaus
that Jesus did it. Two disciples had left Jerusalem, and
were conversing on all the wonderful things that had just
taken place. Jesus drew nigh to them and said " What
manner of communications are these that ye have one to
another, as ye walk, and are sad ?" Cleopas then narrated
to him what had taken place. Jesus chided them for being
slow of heart to .believe what the prophets had spoken ; and,
beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, he expounded
unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning him-
self. There was no Bible, no roll of MS. used, but Jesus
evidently quoted from memory the passages he expounded
to them. After they had some refreshment, Jesus disap-
peared. The two disciples went back again immediately to
Jerusalem, and told the eleven, who were gathered to-
gether, that " The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared
to Simon." While they were conversing, Jesus himself
stood in the midst of them, and said, " Peace be unto you."
They were afraid, thinking they had seen a spirit; but he
allayed their fears—He showed them His hands and his
feet. He partook of a broiled fish and of some honeycomb,
and after alluding to his ministry, " Then opened Ho their
understanding that they mfght ingleratantthe Serintnrp.

That is the Old Testament, as none other was then in
existence.

Since then a considerable number of epistles, gospels, and
!ractates have been written, out of whieh as inspired, or as
Sacred Scripture, there have come down to us four gos-
pels, an ecclesiastical history, 13 acknowledged epistles
by Paul, an epistle to the Hebrews by an
unknown writer, one -epistle by James, three by
John, two by Peter, one by Jude, and the Apocalypse or
Book of the Revelation—making a total of 27 epistles and
tractates, by eight or nine different writers. There have
also been published by Archbishop Wake translations of
the genuine epistles of the apostolic fathers, including two
epistles of Clement to the Corinthians, one epistle of Poly-
carp to the Philippians, seven epistles of Ignatius, the Ca-
tholic epistle of Barnabas, three books of Hermes, and the
narrative of the martyrdom of Polycarp and the epistle to
the Church of Smyrna respecting the same event. These,
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cludes in her Old Testament as inspired the whole of the
books we call apocryphal, but in the New Testament she
reckons only the same books as we have in our Testament.
It is, however, due to truth to say that the Alexandrian
MS. of the New Testament, supposed to be the oldest until
the discovery by Tischendorf, includes the two Epistles of
Clement as sacred Scripture, and the M. E. lately found by
Tischendorf, supposed to have been written about A.D. 350,
contains, as Holy Scripture, the Epistle of Barnabas, and
the Shepherd of Hernias; both these MSS. thus proving
that they were written before our present Canon was finally
formed. Eusebius, the oldest ecclesiastical historian whose
writings we possess, tells us " that the fear Gospels, the
Acts of the Apostles, 13 epistles of Paul, one epistle of Peter,
and one epistle of John, were universally received in his
day (about A.D. 315) as Sacred and Divine, The books
that were controverted, received by some ani rejected by
others, were the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of
James, 2d of Peter, Jude, and the Book of Revelation."
He also enumerates some of the apocryphal books which
were read in churches, and some of the looks which
had been forged under the names of the Gospels of
Peter, of Thomas, and of Matthias, and the Acts
of Andrew and John, and other Apostles. In all these
coses it is clear there was no external e3clesiastical
authority imposing the reception of any looks upon
the Churches. The bishop or pastor, with the Church, used
these writings, which, on the best evidence thej could col-
lect, appeared to be genuine writings of the Apcstles. As
an illustration of this, the Church of Rome did not receive
the Epistle to the Hebrews as the genuine production of
the Apostle Paul ; and to this day it is not known is a mat-
ter of certainty who wrote it. As councils of men or of
bishops must be made up of individuals, there ought to be
the decision of every individual mind in the settlement of
any question without the influence of position or power
being brought to bear upon the question. It is singular how
some intelligent men will employ an argument when they
think it will prop up any favourite opinion or dogma which-
they wish to propagate. Take that, for instance, or are eccle-
siastical council, such as the Council of Nice, or any other
convocation of the clergy. The argument of their number is
relied upon. It is said, "Do you think so many great and
good men could come to a wrong decision ?" I answer it by
putting to the Protestant clergyman another question,—
"Do you think that so many great and good men could
come to a wrong decision in the Council of Trent, with the
Pope at their head ?" Do you think that the Convocation of
the English clergy in the time of the brutal Queen Mary
could come to a wrong decision ? I need not put the ques-
tion as to the convocation of the clergy in 181, for that has
made itself a butt of ridicule before all people. In all Roman
Catholic cases the Protestant clergyman will not allow that
there is any force in the argument fiorn numbers, nor will
the Catholic allow in the case of Protestants. A judgment
to be worth anything must be the result of a thorough exa-
mination of all accessible evidence, carefully, calmly,
honestly, and impartially summed up, and logically and
necessarily resulting from the evidence. And therefore to
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Now, I ask every honest man, whether clergyman or
layman, who has studied these questions : on what autho-
rity we should rely for our knowledge and our principles on ,
the subject of Divine Revelation and Inspiration ? Should
it not be, first of all, the Scriptures themselves. Where
they are silent, it is not for men, some eighteen centuries
afterwards, to be clamorous. Our obvious duty is to go to
the books of the Old Testament, and the New, and dill-
gently inquire of them what they say ; for we cannot be
required to believe more than they ask us to believe. We
have got to ask who wrote the 39 books in the Old Testa-
ment and the 27 in the New. What claim those books lay
to Inspiration ; what parts of them can be said to be Re-
vealed or Inspired ; whether the allusions to science, chro-
nology, Jewish wars, genealogies, the speeches said to be
made by God's enemies and by the devil, are Inspired, and
other topics I need not enumerate. We have got to ask
what the Old and New Testament writers meant by the
word Inspiration. It is a remarkable fact that, when applied
to written documents, it is not once used in the Old Testa-
ment, and only once in the Now, and that before several
of the books now in the New Testament wore written. The
modern doctrine of Inspiration rests on Church authority,
ecclesiastical creeds, and systems of theology. Next to the
Scriptures themselves, we ought to go, in the case of the
New Testament, to the evidence we can get of the opinions
of the early Churches, and if it can be proved (and it is in-
disputable) that the early Churches acted on the great prin •
ciple of private judgment, considered as in contrast or oppo-
sition to ecclesiastical authority and coercion for at least
three centuries, who are the men, whether Papists or Pro.
testants, who dare to take away the liberty from the Churches
of the 19th century that was enjoyed by the Churches
of the first three centuries ? The fact is, that the Essayists
have touched on subjects which are all very well to be dis-
cussed by learned men, but for clergymen to bring them within
the range of the popular mind, popular inquiry, and popular
information is a " a traitorous act" against all the ecclesias-
tical traditions of reserve handed down from the days of
Augustine when he propounded the iniquitous doctrine I
have quoted in a former lecture, and which I quote a second
time, as it cannot be too frequently, too severely, and too
indignantly repudiated. These are his words :—" That
there are many things true in religion which it was not con-
venient for the vulgar to know, and again some things
which though false yet it was expedient should be believed
by them." The former part of this statement I believe is
the opinion of the great body of the clergy, both episcopal
and non-conforming—and too many faithfully carry out the
iniquitous advice embodied in the latter part. As for the
word Inspiration, as applied to the Bible, it has among
theologians almost every variety of meaning. One class of
men, now a small one, believe in what is called verbal In-
spiration, that is, that every word in the Old and New Tes-
tament is Inspired of God, and that the writer could not
and dared not to have used any other. The celebrated Dr.
John Owen went so far as to claim Divine Inspiration for
the Hebrew points, vowels, and accents; he laboured dill-
gently and accumulated largely of Hebrew lore to establish
his proposition that without the points no certain truth
could be learned from the Hebrew Scriptures, and now the
Rev. John Ayre, to whom we shall refer presently, says,
"When the Hebrew ceased t 9 be a living language it was
of course most difficult to retain the pronunciation with-
out expressed vowels. We shall not grbatly err if we sup •
pose that the system of vowel signs was adopted between
the sixth and tenth centuries." Among the more modern
and strenuous advocates of verbal Inspiration was the late
Robert Haldane, of Edinburgh, who published a volume in
Edinburgh in defence of his theory, which had reached a
fourth edition in 1832. And it cannot be doubted that many
of the Reformers, as well as many of the Puritan divines,
rigidly adhered to the doctrine of a strictly verbal Inspira-
tion. There is no intimation of it in the Scriptures, nor in ,

the earliest Fathers, but, like many other doctrines, it was
made a matter of dogmatic statement and belief.
I can make but a few quotations on account of the short-
ness of the time. Two of the ancient Fathers :—Origen,
who was ordained a Presbyter in the year A.D. 228, and
who died in the year A.D. 253, says, " That if anyone care-
fully examines the inconsistencies of the four Gospels with
regard to historical facts, he will find himself giddy as it
were, and no longer insist on the truth of them all, but
choose to adhere to one of them singly, not daring wholly
to reject the faith of Christ; or else, if he admits them all,
he must allow at the same time that the truth of them
idoes notilie in the outward character or letter of them."
St. Chrysostom, who was born in the 4th century, speak-
ng of the discourse of Paul in Acts xxvi., 6, says that the
Apostle speaks after the manner of men, and does not:on all
occasions possess grace, but is allowed to mix up something
of his own too."
Zwingliuq, a distinguished reformer, says " It is not true
that the writings of all the holy men are infallible ; nor is
it true that they do not err. This pre-eminence must be
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given to the Son cf God alone, out of all the human race.

Martin Luther utterly rejected the Epistle of James be-
cause he thought it opposed to the doctrine of Justification
by faith as taught by the Apostle Paul. He certainly had
no leaning either to verbal or plenary Inspiration.
The celebrated Bishop Lowth the translator of and com-
mentator upon the Prophecies of Isaiah, says, " that where
the Apostles trest of the common occurrences of life and
such things as have no relation to divine truths they were
not inspired. As when St. Paul speaks of his design to
take Rome in his way to Spain and to call at Corinth as he
went into Macedonia, but yet it appears he was uncertain as
to that resolution and did not actuallymake it good. Hither-
to of memory in matters of no conse-
quence,someefWhich thartire Who found in the New Testa-
ment. Another instance, wherein we may reasonably slippose

the Apostles spoke without Inspiration is, when theydiscourse

of such things as our Saviour told them they must be con-
tent to be ignorant of. In these cases, I think (says the
Bishop) it will be no prejudice to the Divine Inspiration
of the Apostles to allow them to have spoken like men."
The present Archbishop of Dublin says :—" In matters
unconnected with religion, such as points of history or
natural philosophy, a writer who professes (as the Apostles
do) to be communicating a Divine Revelation, imparted
through him by the means of miracles, may be as liable to
error as other men, without any disparagement to his pre-
tensions ; but if we reject, as false, any part of the religion
which he professes himself Divinely sent to teach, we can-
not consistently believe but that his pretensions are either
an imposture or a delusion, and that he is whollyunworthy
of credit."

The present Bishop of St. David's says :—" As the more
rigid theory of Inspiration was abandoned by the learned on
account of the insuperable difficulties opposed to it by the
discrepancies found in the Gospels; so these same discre-
pancies compel us to admit that the superintending control
of the Spirit was not exerted to exempt the Sacred writers
altogether from errors and inadvertencies."
These quotations might be numerously increased, but
the question of Infallibility must occupy us for a short

time. Is the Bible from Genesis to Revelation an infallible
Book ? Among Roman Catholics the Church is infallible.
The Pope is infallible. And among certain Protestants
the Bible is declared to be infallible not only in those parts
that truly contain a divine revelation but in its scientific
allusions,—historical and genealogical narratives,—in its
prodigies,—in its quotations,—in its chronology and other
matters. Now if any writing be put into my hands and
lam told it is infallible, containing infallible truth, it is
most natural I should ask who wrote it ? when and
where was it written,—what is its external history and
what are its internal evidences,—what are the precise
, grounds to its claim of infallibility and by what process of
evidence is that claim established ? Is it the autograph,
the original writing, or is it a copy,—or is it a copy of the
100th or 1000th copy that had been taken. Is the original
of modern date or hundreds, or thousands of years old ?
You will immediately pet ceive the bearing of these guess
tions from what will follow. To give answers tc-night to
all those questions in reference to many of the books of the
Bible would be impracticable. And yet before we decide
one way or the other about the infallibility of the Old or
New Testament, we must examine some of the books, by
some of these questions. A clergyman of the Church of
England, of the name of Ay re, was selected to re-write the
2d volume of Horne's "Introduction to the Scriptures,"
because Dr. Davidson had written one alleged to be hetero-
dox. Mr. Ayre was chosen for his well-known and esta-
blished orthodoxy. As to the infallibility of the Bible we
may learn his opinion of it from the following paragraph.
He says "It is indisputable that the Bible, as we have it,
is not wholly free from error. We have it only in imper-
fect translations, or, if we take the originals, in an uncer-
tain text. No one now questions the fact that transcribers
have erred, that interpreters have made mistakes. Unless
there were a perpetual miracle, affecting every copyist, and
every printer, and every translator, we must acknowledge
that we have not the Book exactly as it proceeded from the
authors ; if altogether perfect, then it has come down to us
somewhat tarnished with the rust of ages, soiled by the
human hands that have carried it along." Let us now
hear what this clergyman, selected for his orthodoxy, is
compelled by the force of truth to admit respecting the
several books in the Old Testament. As to the Pentateuch,
he says : " It is very possible that a student, after diligent
research, may be persuaded that he sees traces of more
than one hand in the Pentateuch. The question
is confessedly intricate ; and if the varied use of the
Divine name, and any perceptible difference of diction
incline the mind to the conclusion, that the most reasonable
mode for accounting for the phenomena is to believe that pre-
vious documents were worked up into the composition as we
have it, the present writer is far from censuring such a con-
elusion." As to the book of Joshua, he concludes that it
could not have been altogether composed by Joshua him-
self. " We must, at least, believe that this book was written
not later than the earlier years of David." The book of
Judges bears no author's name. Mr. Ayre thinks there may
have been a compiler and editor of this book—that they may
have used written documents, but there is no ground for
supposing that the latter moulded his own and other mate-
rials into a whole. Of the authorship of the book of Ruth,
he says nothing satisfactory can be said. As to the Ist and
2d books of Samuel Mr. Ayre says, " It is not easy to ar-
rive at any certainty with respect to theage and authorship
of these books * * ' that some use was made of pre-
viously existing documents none perhaps will deny." The
let and 2d books of Kings, Mr. Ayre considers were mainly
complied from the book of the acts of Solomo a—the book of
the Chronicles of the kings of Judah, and the book of the
Chronicles of the:kings of Israel, and probably some others
for the histories of E lij a and Elisha. The Ist and 2d Chroni-
cles were compiled from documents then existing, but by
whom is unknown. The first six chapters of Ezra Mr. Ayre
does not think were written by Ezra, but that he did write
from the 7th to the 10th chapters, or that some one edited
the whole and incorporated in it what Ezra had written.
The book of Nehemiah had also an nnkno wn author. The
book of Esther had also an author unknown to us. The
book of Job, Mr. Ayre considers as a complete production
flowing nom a single pen, and then it is a point of difficulty
to determine in what age it was composed, and who was the
author. There can be little certainty here is evident from
the guesses which range over almost the whole period em-
braced by the Bible history. The book of Proverbs, though
many of them the proverbs of Solomon, Mr. Ayre says is
admitted not to have been collected by Solomon in
its present form. The book Ecclesiastes is of unknown au-
thorship. Of Solomon's Song, Mr. Ayre says : "It is
readily admitted that if the subject be proved to be the re-
jection of Solomon's love, he is not likely to have himself
written the book. On this point, also, good and wise men
will differ." As to the Prophets, Mr. Ayro admits that " it
is not certain that the Prophets always collected their own
productions. This was, doubtless, done under Divine
guidance." These are some of the sentiments of Mr. Ayre,
an Evangelical Low Churchman, uttered and recorded by
him honestly—and as one specially selected to do away with
the influence of the alleged heresy of Dr. Davidson. They
are contained in a book specially prepared for the clergy of
all denominations, for students as well as ministers—a
heavy book of four thick Bvo. closely printed volumes,
but now enlarged. Neither of the Essayists could, have
more than Mr. Ayre has said, and neither of them has said
half so much. Nevertheless, what Mr. Ayre has written is
strictly true, and some who had specially to do with his
appointment, because of his thorough orthodoxy, are an-
noyed that he has so frankly and honestly spoken or written
so much of the truth. Let us now look at the consequences
of every one knowing the truth. Some persons allege that
you unsettle men's minds by communicating to them what
they did not know before, especially if not in harmony with
their previous notions. And what then if it should be so ?
And who are the persons that make the complaint, and
what do they do themselves ? The complaint is commonly
mole by clergymen and dissenting ministers and such per-
sons as they teach and influence to echo it. And what do
they do themselves ? They support societies to unsettle
the mind of the Jew, to alienate him from Judaism, which
to this time has been his hope, his joy, and his happiness
and they hope by missionary agency to bring him over to
Christianity. It is the same as to the Roman Catholic —they
unsettle them, take away from them their old hope, destroy
their faith in the Virgin Mary and they justify it by saying
that they give them truth instead of error. It is precisely
so with regard to the Bible. As in Mr. Ayre's case he has
given students in theology, truth as to external evidence
and history of the books of the Old Testament, instead of
the unscriptural notion of verbal inspiration and absolute
infallibility. Wherever in science, commerce, politics, or
theology, you give men truth and sound principles instead
of error, it is very natural that they should be uns
even perplexed for a time, but from any
difficultyettioedf that
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kind in the present day, it is quite easy to erneige*
the fear of the loss of clerical influence, and of men and wo-